Virtue Quotes

Diogenes laertius, zeno - one ought to seek out virtue for its own sake,...
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig van Beethoven
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Voltaire
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
Nikola Tesla
John dryden - let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone...
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
Bluntness is a virtue.
Allison Ling
To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
William Hazlitt
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.
Cicero
Virtue is indeed its own reward.
Claudianus
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Mary Bertone
From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of 8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.
Barbara Ehrenreich
William shakespeare - pity is the virtue of the law, and none but...
He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.
Benjamin Franklin
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 2 scene 1
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
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.
G. K. Chesterton
Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
Joseph Addison
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
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.
Horace Bushnell
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
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.
Mark Twain
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
Xenophon
What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.
Henry David Thoreau
What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
Cato the Elde
Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.
Gay
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
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
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state - Of - The - Art technology.
Robert E. Kahn
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
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
William Butler Yeats
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord.
W. T. Ussery
Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired.
Venezuelan Prove
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
In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
Cornelius Tacitus
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
Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.
Dinesh D? Souza
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