Virtue Quotes

Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.

I wrap myself up in virtue. [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]

The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.

There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.

Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.

Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried. [Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori Coelum, negata tentat iter via.]

Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his.

Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful.

I’d give him a cup of coffee and a big helping of a knuckle sandwich. Generosity was a virtue and I was in the mood to be extremely virtuous.

​Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.

As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.

Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.

If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue that we know this and seek no comfort.

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.

Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.

Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care.

Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as a virtue.

But crazy people never think they're crazy. You're sane just by the virtue of the question.

Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.

An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the intention of pleasing God alone.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

I hope that each of you girls will become an individual of significant worth and a person of virtue so that your contributions are maintained in both human and eternal terms.

By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.

We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.

Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue.

Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.

Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.

It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

The woman had a humble, cringing manner. Of course, she had discovered that, having neither money nor virtue, she had better be humble if she knew what was good for her.

Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue.

Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.