Virtue Quotes

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

Ursula Le Guin

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Prove

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

Sir J. R. Seeley

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Henri Frdric Amiel

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

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Rene Descartes

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Austin Farra

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors.... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Is virtue a thing remote I wish to be virtuous, and lo Virtue is at hand.

Confucius

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

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Ludwig van Beethoven

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Plutarch, Morals

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

There is no virtue in being uncritical nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.

Richard Livingstone

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

Bernard of Chartres, 12th Century

Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Joseph Addison

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Quintilian

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

John Locke

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.

Theodore Roosevelt

To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.

Benjamin Franklin, ?

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

Robert K. Merton

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Seneca

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams

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

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired.

Venezuelan Prove

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

William Shakespeare