Virtute Non Quotes & Sayings

Wealth is not attain by the small investment that hits the jackpot,but rather by properly investing in the two biggest assets you have: your time and your desire. — Brian Gotta

The Land of Opportunity is an attitude. — B. J. Gallagher Hateley

Compulsion: noun, mass noun; an ability possessed by certain Que Cum Virtute Judicium (Virts) to force someone to do something or create an irresistible urge to behave in a certain way — Alex Lane

What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair! — James Russell Lowell

I'm basically a writer, it's who I am. I direct and I like theatre directing very much. But I've done 17 movies, they don't say 'Let's get Garry, he'll make a helicopter shot,' they say 'Get Garry, he'll fix the script.' — Garry Marshall

We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough.
[Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus.
Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.] — Plautus

Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end? — Gerard Manley Hopkins

In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war. — Pankaj Mishra

Asgard has fallen. The gods are dead. The old oaths have been broken. And tell all who will hear: the Valkyrie ride to war. — Pierce Brown

The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions. — Lester Levenson

The tree can teach you forbearance and tolerance. It offers shade to all, irrespective of age, sex or religion, nationality or status. It helps with fruit and shade even to the foe who lays his axe on its trunk! The dog can teach you a lesson in Faith, Self-less service and the process of Dedication. — Sathya Sai Baba

I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
[Lat., Laudo manentem; si celeres quatit
Pennas, resigno quae dedit, et mea
Virtute me involvo, probamque
Pauperiem sine dote quaero.] — Horace

I can't relate to your razzle-dazzle, your wish
for voluptuous when my symphony is spanx. — Kelli Russell Agodon

You have a sacred contract with the Universe, and no one can fulfill it except you. — Gary Zukav

Celerity: noun, mass noun; an ability possessed by certain Que Cum Virtute Judicium (Virts) increasing the mobility or swiftness of movement — Alex Lane

When we are weak, then are we strong. When most empty of self, we are most full of God. — Charles Hodge

Pyrokinesis: noun, mass noun; an ability possessed by certain Que Cum Virtute Judicium (Virts) to generate or manipulate heat — Alex Lane

A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom. — Owen Feltham