Virtue Quotes

I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.

If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the fount of all virtue.

And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?

The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.

No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.

The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do.

Virtue which shuns, the day.

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.

Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!

A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion.

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.

The seizure of passionate love can be, in such a context, only illicit, breaking in upon the order of one's dutiful life in virtue as a devastating storm.

He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.

Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.

What is virtue? Reason in practice.

There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.

It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.

...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.

Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

True virtue would never liken its rewards to points on a loyalty card, not because it is its own reward, but because it is not something we should practice to accrue future benefits.

Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.

Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue. [Lat., Semita certe Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]

Integrity is praised, and starves.

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.

Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness.

But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .

I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.

I was surrounded by art by virtue of not only the educational opportunities that my mother's foresight availed me to.

We have a tendency to romanticize independence. Most business literature still views autonomy as a virtue, as though communication, teamwork, and cooperation were lesser values.

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

Tolerance is a relatively weak virtue; we're called to so much more than that in the body of Christ.

Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.

Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?

Faith is the foundation of every virtue that strengthens marriage.

Homosexual behavior is and will always remain before the Lord an abominable sin. Calling it something else by virtue of some political definition does not change that reality.

Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.

Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason.

He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of mankind, Virtue will never desert him. He returns to the state of a little child.

The greatest virtue is to follow the Way utterly.

Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal.

Build up virtue, and you master all.