Virtue Quotes
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.
Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals.
Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.
Look within. The heart is the foundation of virtue; and it is for eternity ready to do virtuous works.
The most important thing is to be strong. With strength, one can conquer others, and to conquer others gives one virtue.
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
Everything on our tormented earth that is alive and breathes, that blossoms and bears fruit, lives only by virtue of and in the name of Truth and Good.
An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery.
there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.
It is entirely possible that Limbaugh himself never needed contraception in college, but virtue in the absence of opportunity is hardly a moral triumph.
Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.
It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.
He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and nobility that decorate this world.
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.
It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.
Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
'Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government.
What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown.
Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.
Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.