Virtuous Quotes - Page 16

• My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what the Lord wants you to be... Give me a young woman who loves home and family, who reads and ponders the scriptures daily, who has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon... Give me a young woman who is virtuous and who has maintained her personal purity, who will not settle for less than a temple marriage, and I will give you a young woman who will perform miracles for the Lord now and throughout eternity.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Book, Home, Giving

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• And what is true education? It is awakening a love for truth; giving a just sense of duty; opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. It is not so much giving words, as thoughts; or mere maxims, as living principles. It is not teaching to be honest, because 'honesty is the best policy'; but because it is right. It is teaching the individual to love the good, for the sake of the good; to be virtuous in action because one is so in heart; to love and serve God supremely, not from fear, but from delight in his perfect character.

  David O. McKay

  Honesty, Teaching, Heart

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• Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Healthy, Wealth, Sober

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.68

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• The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Looks, World, Feels

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• The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life to be virtuous. Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a blackguard, wolfish, severe. In service to itself, it will commit any offense. So, too, is Death possessed of infinite strategies and a gaunt nature- but also mercy, also grace and tenderness. In his own country, Death can be kind.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Country, Grace, Wicked

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.79, Macmillan

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• It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when they are good for other people as well they are thought virtuous: if he finds pleasure in helping others he is benevolent; if he finds pleasure in working for society he is public-spirited; but it is for your private pleasure that you give twopence to a beggar as much as it is for my private pleasure that I drink another whiskey and soda. I, less of a humbug than you, neither applaud myself for my pleasure nor demand your admiration.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Helping Others, Men, Practice

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• Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cages, Way, Sometimes

  "The Wake (The Sandman, Book 10)". Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, August 1995 – March 1996.

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• One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.

  Honore de Balzac

  Flames, Two, Hypocrisy

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• The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  History, Three, Slavery

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1975). “History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne”, Ayer Company Pub

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• In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Darkness, Add, Desert

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.23

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• There’s a virtuous cycle when people have to defend challenges to their ideas. Any gaps in thinking or analysis become clear pretty quickly when smart people ask good, logical questions. You can’t be a good value investor without being an independent thinker – you’re seeing valuations that the market is not appreciating. But it’s critical that you understand why the market isn’t seeing the value you do. The back and forth that goes on in the investment process helps you get at that.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Smart, Independent, Thinking

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• 'Tis not to make me jealous
  To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company,
  Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well;
  Where virtue is, these are more virtuous.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealous, Play, Wife

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1766). “THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.: CONTAINING, ROMEO and JULIET. HAMLET, PRINCE of DENMARK. OTHELLO, the MOOR of VENICE. VOLUME the TENTH”, p.361

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• The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

  Denis Diderot

  Men, Theatre, Wicked

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the moral sphere - the Pavarottis and Maradonas of virtue.

  Terry Eagleton

  Christian, Party, Practice

  "Ideas for modern living: virtue" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2010.

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• There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

  Havelock Ellis

  Wise, Country, Time

  Arthur William Allen, Carl Schurz, Joseph Hodges Choate, Noel Noel-Buxton Baron Noel-Buxton, Philip Snowden Snowden (Viscount) (1913). “President Wilson on the United States and Latin America: Address Before the Southern Commercial Congress at Mobile, Alabama, October 27, 1913”

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• One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

  Aldous Huxley

  Cheating, Patriotic, Bully

  Aldous Huxley (1955). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Beautiful, War, Intelligent

  John Maynard Keynes (1982). “Activities 1931-1939: world crises and policies in Britain and America”

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• What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Children, Dozen, May

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• Conversion comes as we live pure and virtuous lives and enjoy the companionship of the Holy Ghost.

  Bonnie L. Oscarson

  Ghost, Companionship, Holy

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• Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Heart, Dark, Risk

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.367, Macmillan

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• Stravinskys music, hard, cold, unsentimental, enormously brilliant and virtuous, was now the favorite of my postadolescence. In a different way it achieved the hard, cold, postwar flawlessness which I myself wanted to attain-but in an entirely different style, medium.

  George Antheil

  Style, Different, Way

  George Antheil (1945). “Bad boy of music”

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• Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Independent, Citizens, Earth

  Thomas Jefferson (1832). “Notes on the State of Virginia”, p.183

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• Just as the Salt Lake Temple took 40 years to build, stone by stone, you are building a virtuous life, step by step.

  Mary N. Cook

  Lakes, Years, Stones

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• Atheists would teach men to be moral now, not because God offers as an inducement reward by and by, but because in the virtuous act itself immediate good is insured to the doer and the circle surrounding him.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Atheist, Men, Circles

  Charles Bradlaugh (1875). “A Few Words About the Devil: And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays”, p.227, Library of Alexandria

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• The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear.

  Confucius

  Wise, Anxiety, Perplexity

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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