Virtue Quotes

By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

Your stockings prove your virtues. Be certain they are clean and free of tears.

Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.

I see no virtue where I smell no sweat.

There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

Follow the way of virtue. Follow the way joyfully through this world and on beyond.

Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.

When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?

Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward.

The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.

Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.

Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.

Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.

Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.

Happiness is transparent. ... That is its virtue.

Authentic femininity is a combination of class, tenderness and virtue. When a woman possesses these traits, a man will naturally want to be more of a gentleman around her.

If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?

Saddest of all are the women who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. They made the sacrifice, often willingly, and they are still waiting for the blessing.

Is not virtue a negation of becoming?

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.

What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.

In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.

If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.

It is, indeed, a trial to maintain the virtue of humility when one can't help being right.

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

A disease of the mind, [whose] germ is the idea that one may learn that which is valuable, or in any way acquire virtue, by the process of being shown things.

Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.

Anyone can love a virtue, but a good human being is he or she who loves even vicious people. Everyone Loves the melodious voice of cuckoo, but who cares for Kaw- Kaw of crow.

Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.

While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.

Contentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune.

Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.

After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.

The great virtue of those who seek the spiritual path is courage.

In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.

It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.

When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults.

It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulders.

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.

Purpose is a soft virtue- but it's what gives you steel in your spine.