Virtue Quotes
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.George Washington
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
The home is the chief school of human virtues.William Ellery Channing
An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news - writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself.Sir Henry Wotton, "Reliquae Wottonianae".
Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.Don Marquis
Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams
To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.Benjamin Franklin, ?
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.Harriet Beecher Stowe
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 Aelius Aurelius
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.Ludwig van Beethoven
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.John Locke
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
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.Confucius
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.Cato the Elde
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.Sir Winston Churchill
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.Baruch Spinoza
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.Rene Descartes
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.Benjamin Franklin
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
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
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
Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.David Starr Jordan
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.William Shakespeare
Virtue does not come from wealth, but... wealth, and every other good thing which men have... comes from virtue.Socrates
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.Silius Italicus
Not to be cheered by praise, Not to be grieved by blame, But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers Are the characteristics of an excellent man.Saskya Pandita
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.Saint Thomas Aquinas
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.John Dryden, Imitation of Horace
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
Virtue can only flourish among equals.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.William Shakespeare
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.Confucius
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.Thomas Jefferson
