Virtue Quotes

A large part of virtue consists in good habits.

William Paley

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

John Dryden

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitheead

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.

Frank Zappa

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

Tom Robbins

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.

Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics

Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.

Franoise Mallet - Joris

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.

Benjamin Franklin

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

John Locke

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it.

South

And be on they guard against the good and the just They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue - - They hate the lonesome ones.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Joseph Addison

Virtue they will but abuse, and taunt her with bitter revilling.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Book Eleven

Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

William Shakespeare

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Prove

Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.

Ruth Fulton Benedict

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Robert Hall

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.

Francis Bacon

If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.

Francis Quarles

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Clive Staples Lewis

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Francis Quarles

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great necessities call out great virtues.

Abigail Adams

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

George Bancroft

New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state - Of - The - Art technology.

Robert E. Kahn

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Brendan Francis Behan

If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.

I. F. Stone

Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self - Made sepulcher of a living man.

Francis Quarles

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Juvenal

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

William Golding

Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled.

The Hitopadesa