Best fall & virtue Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.”

Way Book Fall Games Term Virtue Subjects Media Source Discipline Messages News Treats Access Reporters Default

Author:Ron Suskind

“When we think of the height of God's infinity we should not despair of His compassion reaching us from such a height; and when we recall the infinite depth of our fall through sin we should not refuse to believe that the virtue which has been killed in us will rise again. For God can accomplish both these things: He can come down and illumine our intellect with spiritual knowledge, and He can raise up the virtue within us and exalt it with Himself through works of righteousness.”

“No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.”

World Soul Fall Evil Virtue Conditions This World Spring Deny Substance Animated

Book:Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)

Source: Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)

“Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.”

Ifs May Light Fall Numbers Virtue Greater Faults Strive Commit Neglect Repentance Large Numbers

Book:Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)

Source: Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)

“One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with common sense and decency, .. The considered judgment of the American people is not going to rise or fall on the fine distinctions of a legal argument but on straight talk and the truth. It is time for the president and the Congress to follow that common sense for the good of the country.”

People Important Country Character Fall President Ability Common Virtue Fine Judgment Approach Argument Congress Common Sense Complexity Distinction Decency American Character

Author:Dick Gephardt

“A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny; it disregards the principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into despotism. The distinguishing characteristic of small republics is stability: the character of large republics is mutability.”

“To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action or concession on his behalf. That is the sort of revenge which falls into the scale of virtue.”

Giving Action Certain Fall Enemy Virtue Seeing Satisfaction Revenge Scales Contentment Behalf Benevolent Humiliated Concessions

Book:The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss

“Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.”

Needs Should Doe Ideas Hard Dream Earth Beautiful Fall Virtue Hard Work Blue Honorable Down To Earth

Author:Xi Jinping

“Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.”

Wisdom Fall Virtue Taken Grace Accomplishment Exterior

Book:The Works of William Cowper: Table talk. The task. Tirocinium; or, A review of schools. Miscellaneous poems

Source: The Works of William Cowper: Table talk. The task. Tirocinium; or, A review of schools. Miscellaneous poems

“Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great mischief. It happens, however, very unfortunately, that almost the whole line of the great and masculine virtues--constancy, gravity, magnanimity, fortitude, fidelity, and firmness--are closely allied to this disagreeable quality, of which you have so just an abhorrence; and in their excess all these virtues very easily fall into it.”

Source: Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added the Arguement of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier

“We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder how, under the temptation of a single hour, they fall from the very heights of virtue and of honor into sin and shame. The fact is that there are no such falls as these, or there are next to none. These men and women are those who have dallied with temptation--have exposed themselves to the influence of it, and have been weakened and corrupted by it.”

Men Has Beens Facts Certain Fall Next Left Hours Sin Wonder Virtue Influence Honor Men And Women Shame Temptation Height Shock Exposed

Author:J. G. Holland

“Fear, if it be not immoderate, puts a guard about us that does watch and defend us; but credulity keeps us naked, and lays us open to all the sly assaults of ill-intending men: it was a virtue when man was in his innocence; but since his fall, it abuses those that own it.”

Ifs Men Doe Fall Watches Virtue Abuse Lays Ill Naked Innocence Assault Credulity Sly

Author:Owen Feltham

“In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows up through the reassertion of our old values in belligerent, testy ways. Regression of any kind is just such a return to old presumptions, often after they have been shown to be insufficient for the complexity of larger questions. The virtue of the old presumptions is that they once worked, or seemed to work, and therein lies if not certainty, then nostalgia for a previous, presumptive security. In our private lives, we frequently fall back upon our old roles.”

Source: What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life

“One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.”

Needs Should Fall Situation Virtue Dancer Rope

Book:Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo

Source: Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo

“To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.”

Fall Situation Virtue Rope

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue: His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him.”

Men Law Lying Fall Virtue Presses Faults Oppression

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.”

Men Fall Virtue Crime Credit Misfortunes

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There's only one way for an individual to remain upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of self-oblivionorself-contempt. That's calmly to turn away from everything, to say, "Enough!" and, folding one's useless arms across one's empty breast, to retain the ultimate, the sole attainable virtue, the virtue of recognizing one's own insignificance.”

Way Self Enough Turns Fall Individual Virtue Pieces Arms Empty Ultimate One Way Useless Breasts Pessimism Contempt Sole Recognizing Renunciation Insignificance Folding

Author:Ivan Turgenev

“When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue's sake.”

Fall Evil Virtue Injustice Sake Wicked Prize Virtuous

Author:Sallust

“There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.”

May Fall Virtue Gains Temptation

Book:Morals and Dogma

Source: Morals and Dogma

“A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay.”

States Fall Virtue Expensive Decay Dependency Mutability

Author:Simon Bolivar

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