Virtue Quotes

If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they’ve been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we’re headed right back toward The Virtues.

Since childhood at my mother's knee, I have believed in honor, ethics and right living as its own reward. I find a very small minority who agree with me on that premise.

Virtue is the fount whence honor springs.

I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.

But mercy ceases to be a virtue when it enables further injustice.

Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Your stockings prove your virtues.Be certain they are clean and free of tears.

The charm of your society, my Sparrow, lies in not knowing what you will say next – though one rapidly learns to expect the worst!

Pacifism is a virtue indisguishable from cowardice.

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)

A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.

Virtue - to be good and just -Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.- The Vision of Sin

You're perfectly safe. Emily is here to protect your virtue." "That's too bad.

Folded hands may conceal a dagger --Likewise a foe's tears.

The vast world rainless, one may bid adieuTo charity and penance.

Conquer with forbearanceThe excesses of insolence.

Virtue has need of limits.

Oskar showed that virtue emerged where it would, and the sort of churchy observance bishops called for was not a guarantee of genuine humanity in a person.

...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core.

Small, therefore, can we think the progress we have made, as long as our admiration for those who have done noble things is barren, and does not of itself incite us to imitate them.

For every virtuous man, there are ten thousand worshipers of virtue.

Our genuine happiness comes from doing things we feel good about, not from doing things that make us feel good.

The liberal arts do not conduct the soul all the way to virtue, but merely set it going in that direction.

... We [can't] escape the influence of sin in the world, but [do] we have to pay money to see and hear it firsthand?

Delayed gratification is a major virtue that is missing from our society.

We often find that People who claim virtue are the ones to lack it the most.

On Perseverance – Persistence is admirable. Stubbornness is stupid. Just remember: the latter two even begin with the same three letters.

You want the world to be perfect, Nedril—and that's a noble goal. But the world isn't perfect. It's people like me who give the world the chance to try another day for virtue.

Virtues should not be seen as a medium to please others, else, they'll always fall short. They should, first, be a medium of self-edification.

Any woman of virtue won't be easy to come by. She will make you jump over hurdles to reach her.

Justine's virtue, in action, is the liberal lie in action, a good heart and an inadequate methodology.

Any virtue can be taken too far.

If a nation succeeds in making her people strong in virtues, then the nation is rich already.

She would grace his home with her charm and beauty and she would make his bed joyous, all without ever having to shame his hearth with another man's memory of her shamelessness.

PRESCRIPTION A bitof virtuewill neverhurt you.

Never sacrifice what’s right for what’s convenient.

Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause.

The virtue of its Citizens is the only Support of a Republican government

They think virtues are man-made, only exist because they exist, but if no human had ever existed, The Virtues would persist for they hold their being from the very Presence of the Adversary Himself.

We’ve spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that’s precisely how we did it —by making it lower case.

What are your chief vices? And virtues? I have no vices. The concept doesn't exist in my vocabulary. My chief virtue is gratitude

No action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen.

To be moral, an act must be free.

Virtue in a woman is like pepper in the soup. A little makes for a nice seasoning. Butoverdo it, and no one wants very much of you.

What we're fighting against isn't an out-and-out vice. It's an overgrown, perverted virtue.

Virtue became less the harsh and martial self-sacrifice of antiquity and more the modern willingness to get along with others for the sake of peace and prosperity.

If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better.

The beauty and music...It is a call...And some are not strong.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A lie told in the service of truth is virtue.