Virtue Quotes
Virtue Quotes
A carefully curated collection of virtue quotes from writers, thinkers and voices worth listening to. Whether you need a quick boost or a deeper moment of reflection, these words are here to help.
"Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. An enduring thought on resilience and personal responsibility."
-- Marcus Aurelius"Our life is what our thoughts make it. An enduring thought on resilience and personal responsibility."
-- Marcus Aurelius"Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life. An enduring thought on resilience and personal responsibility."
-- Marcus Aurelius"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. An enduring thought on resilience and personal responsibility."
-- Marcus Aurelius"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. An enduring thought on resilience and personal responsibility."
-- Marcus Aurelius"The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national, as well as private opulence is originally derived, is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement. An observation that echoes through modern markets."
-- Adam Smith"The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. An observation that echoes through modern markets."
-- Adam Smith"Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another. An observation that echoes through modern markets."
-- Adam Smith"We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it. An observation that echoes through modern markets."
-- Adam Smith"The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters. An observation that echoes through modern markets."
-- Adam Smith"Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer you approach to this certainty. An observation that echoes through modern markets."
-- Adam Smith"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. An observation that echoes through modern markets."
-- Adam Smith"Defense is of much more importance than opulence. An observation that echoes through modern markets."
-- Adam Smith"To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. An observation that echoes through modern markets."
-- Adam Smith"Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. An observation that echoes through modern markets."
-- Adam Smith"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
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A carefully curated collection of virtue quotes from writers, thinkers and voices worth listening to. Whether you need a quick boost or a deeper moment of reflection, these words are here to help.
Some of the most celebrated virtue quotes come from Krishna, Confucius, William Shakespeare, Swami Vivekananda, Gautama Buddha, among many others featured on this page.
Popular virtue quotes include: "Humility, unpretentiousness, non-injury, and forgiveness... this is declared to be knowledge." -- Krishna Also: "Fearlessness, purity of heart... these belong to him who is born with divine qualities." -- Krishna.
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