Virtue Quotes

Harriet beecher stowe - to be really great in little things, to be truly...
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
Horace, Epistles
Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.
Ayn Rand
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
John Locke
William hazlitt - to think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to...
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
Benjamin Franklin
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
Nikola Tesla
That man is good who does good to others if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further it is heroic, it is perfect.
La Bruyere
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Whitheead
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Jean - Jacques Rousseau
Hugh prathe - unless i accept my faults, i will most certainly...
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Thomas Paine
If by saying that all men are born free and equal, you mean that they are all equally born; it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences.
Eugene Edwards
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
Sterne
He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.
Benjamin Franklin
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Aristotle
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
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
Thomas Jefferson
One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.
Juvenal
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
Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.
Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
William Shakespeare
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington
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
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
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Cicero
Blushing is the color of virtue.
Laertius Diogenes
The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.
Socrates
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state - Of - The - Art technology.
Robert E. Kahn
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
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
- - Aristotle
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
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
Clare Booth Luce
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
Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams
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