Virtue Quotes

It is a virtue to admit ignorance when you don't know, but not to wallow in ignorance as an end in itself. People say if we don't believe god is watching over us, we abandon morality. Are they right?

I believe in my neighbors. I know their faults and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults.

Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them, not even for a single hour.

Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application.

It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.

In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue.

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.

Forgiveness is Truth itself. It is Righteousness, it is the Veda. It is the supreme virtue in this world.

Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.

No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.

For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.

A slight failing in one virtue is enough to put all the others to sleep.

It is generally admitted, and very frequently proved, that virtue and genius, and all the natural good qualities which men possess, are derived from their mothers.

I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.

Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue!

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

Even virtue is fairer in a fair body.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]

As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact.

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.

Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.

One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.

We cultivate our feelings the way we cultivate a garden: we can't entirely prevent weeds from coming up, but we can take care to remove them before they do much harm.

‎It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.

But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.