Virtue Quotes

I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.

The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.

I believe that eclecticism is a virtue. It may not be a word, but its definitely a virtue.

Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires.

There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled.

For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

'Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous.

So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn't share her body with any of them.

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.

I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.

Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.

No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity.

I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

Patience is not a virtue!

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

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

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

Common sense has become an uncommon virtue.

The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.

Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.

The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed to a bouquet.

A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.

Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning.

He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.

I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.

Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

Reward is its own virtue.

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

Kindness is no common virtue. It is a rare gift.

Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.

The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.

Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.

Seeming devotion does but gild a knave, That's neither faithful, honest, just, nor brave; But where religion does with virtue join, It makes a hero like an angel shine.

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.