Virtue Quotes

Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine; wherever he is despised, he is despised in the name of nature and reason.

I'm a grinder....I've never taken more than a week off in my adult life. I truly believe work is a virtue, it gives you purpose.

For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens.

You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.

The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.

Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.

Love's like virtue, its own reward.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

We should make virtue our master, not our servant.

Humility is the most beautiful virtue that we can develop.

The highest virtue here may be least in another world.

We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a calm conscience without possessing virtue.

Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.

Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.

I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.

Male philosophers coin phrases -- 'virtue is its own reward' -- and female workers embody them.

As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.

There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.

Viewed systematically, religion can be differentiated from other culturally constituted institutions by virtue only of its reference to superhuman beings.

The Liberal Party of Canada has no monopoly on public service, we have no monopoly on virtue, and we have no monopoly on wisdom.

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

Humility is a priceless virtue; however, it takes a lot of self-emptying to cultivate it.

We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.

I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the man who lives to project and execute gardens.

Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.

Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings.

I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.

Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.

Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people.

Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes a curse - and others will always choose for him.

Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.

Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.

For virtue only finds eternal Fame.

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

Is virtue something that can be taught?

All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.

The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

Obscurity is never a virtue.

Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine.

Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.

To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.

Patience is a virtue. (Tee) Excuse me, pot, could you not pick on the kettle? (Joe)

The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.

Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.