Virtue Quotes

Virtue is nothing else than right reason

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.

Successful villany is called virtue.

He who practices sheel (virtue) and sayyam (self-restrain) attains to greatness

The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

Let us respect even error when it has its source in virtue.

Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!

Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

Unfortunately, too many executives believe the myths about trust. Myths like how trust is soft and is merely a social virtue. The reality is that trust is hard-edged and is an economic driver.

Consistency is a virtue for trains.

I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.

Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue-don’t you realize that?

You always fashioned yourself as the Empire's harshest Fist, didn't you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty's a virtue.

Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.

Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue.

So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough.

a writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous cost. Paid, so far as I am concerned, joyfully.

Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.

It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked

It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.

The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside.

Cowardice is no virtue.

Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples. [Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum, ut non et bona exempla prodiderit.]

If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.

We prepare for success by acquiring virtues.

The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.

You have to make sure that [grants] reach people by virtue of their Identity Documents.

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.

Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant one The great grey rigid uniform combined Safety with virtue of the sun. Thus concepts linked like chainmail in the mind.

The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.

Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation.

They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.

Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?

The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good; but a calculation of the Profitable.

Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.

Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity.

If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance of self- government, which we have acquired and shaped for them.

A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.

Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue.

Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers.