Top Virtuous Quotes

Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.

Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more and seen more betrayed. At your age one is bursting...

Virtuous Definition

(a.) Possessing or exhibiting virtue.

(a.) Exhibiting manly courage and strength; valorous; valiant; brave.

(a.) Having power or efficacy; powerfully operative; efficacious; potent.

(a.) Having moral excellence; characterized by morality; upright; righteous; pure; as, a virtuous action.

(a.) Chaste; pure; -- applied especially to women.

Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do not apply what they know. To break the culture, look for more information; learn more and apply more....

What grave liability one incurs when one calls a virtuous woman, a whore! It will ruin his countless lives to come. There is no liability if one calls a whore a virtuous woman!

Innocent and virtuous, she represented the exact type of female he avoided... God, she was a taking thing, even for an avaricious reformer.

I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.

A happy life is a virtuous life.

Let them judge you, but remain virtuous.Let them criticize you, but remain wise.Let them misunderstand you, but remain kind. Let them hate you, but remain exceptional.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.

Ideas become reality. once you hit that reality, you get a new idea. it's a virtuous upward spiral. However, the majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of...

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

What is GRACE?An individual, inspiring and virtuous impulse, that streams the spirit with life!

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.

This is a night for song and sin and drink, for come the morrow, the virtuous and the vile burn together.

Socrates: (...)They should not pit themselves against the will of the Gods in thought or deed. Here lies the true path of virtue and happiness. The other way is arrogance, pride and hubris. It ends in...

People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.

If a nation and any nation on this earth could raise up the standard of personal responsibility in their society, you will in no time see a nation of virtuous people, developed and civilized.

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.