Virtue Quotes

Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for community building and relating to others.

Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.

The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.

I have brought him [my son] up to think that purity and virtue are both masculine and femanine gender, and that God's angels are not necessarily all she ones.

Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue.

Uniqueness isn't a virtue. It's a responsibility.

The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal

None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.

What's virtue in a man can't be virtue in a cat.

friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.

Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

Style disdains comfort and is always ready to sacrifice virtue.

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

The neuroses parody the virtues.

Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.

Big-heartednes s is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.

I think everyone is given drama, by virtue of the fact that we all have drama in our lives, but not everyone can make people laugh.

Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.

Courage is the most fundamental of all virtues.

Patience is more than a virtue for long lines and slow waiters. Patience is the red carpet upon which God's grace approaches us.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.

I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.

Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us unmercifully when we do wrong.

In the middle of a dessert, no one talks about the virtues of the Sun!

What makes a man heavy is the gravity of virtue. Without it, man will be so light that he will be drifted in the winds of immorality.

Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.

I feel very strongly that we make decisions about what we're giving to the world, what we're withholding from the world, by virtue of what we put on our bodies.

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.

The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.

Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.

Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.

In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.

However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure.

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

I'm interested in what the virtues of all those things are, especially for the kind of person who's made their own world that revolves around them, like writers do. It seems especially precious.

I do believe that by virtue of having a volunteer army, you are going to have men and women who decide to serve and others who decide to pursue different careers.

Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.

Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind.