Virtue Quotes

Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.

In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

The sturdiest virtue seems fragile.

There is no part of the whole course of our Saviour Christ's life or death, but it is well worthy our looking on; and from each part in it there goeth virtue to do us good.

There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.

Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.

Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.

There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.

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.

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.

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.

It is entirely possible that Limbaugh himself never needed contraception in college, but virtue in the absence of opportunity is hardly a moral triumph.

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.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

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.

Compassion is not a popular virtue

Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.

Faith creates the virtues in which it believes.

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.

Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

Faith has this excellency, that it is able to bring life out of death, light out of darkness. It has a kind of creating virtue.

It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

Men must sweat to attain virtue.

'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fondness, one loves people...

Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.

Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.

Repentance is the virtue of weak minds.

Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.

A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.

Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.

Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.

I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.

You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Birth is nothing where virtue is not

Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such nor desire to be; herein consists the heroic spirit of the philosopher.

Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Virtue is the first title of nobility.

Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.

There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.