Virtue Quotes
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
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
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
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.Carl Sagan
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.Erik H. Erikson
Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.Mae West
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.Johann von Goethe
Self - Respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.John Herschel
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.Victor Hugo
Virtue is indeed its own reward.Claudianus
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 only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.Benjamin Franklin
In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.Cornelius Tacitus
A revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.John Adams, (Diary, 1786)
Virtue can only flourish among equals.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great necessities call out great virtues.Abigail Adams
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.Sir Winston Churchill
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.Thomas Paine, "The Rights of Man", 1792
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.Rene Descartes
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.Whitheead
Modesty and unselfishness - - These are the virtues which men praise - - And pass by.Andr Maurois
Blushing is the color of virtue.Laertius Diogenes
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
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
What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married.George Bernard Shaw
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.Thomas Paine
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.Oscar Wilde
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, 1653
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.Cicero
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.Quintilian
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.Ludwig van Beethoven
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.Francis Bacon
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.Robert K. Merton
