Virtue Quotes
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
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.Clive Staples Lewis
Virtue can only flourish among equals.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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
To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.Benjamin Franklin, ?
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 home is the chief school of human virtues.William Ellery Channing
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
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.Baruch Spinoza
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.Ambrose Bierce
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.Sallust
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.Clare Booth Luce
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.Sir J. R. Seeley
Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice - Cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.Denis Diderot
Is virtue a thing remote I wish to be virtuous, and lo Virtue is at hand.Confucius
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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
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
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
Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice only the willingness to make it when necessary.Frederick Sherwood Dunn
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.Voltaire
Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice...Marquis de Sade, Justine
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.Aristotle
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.Cato the Elde
Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.Sir Francis Bacon, Of Adversity
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.Ruth Fulton Benedict
What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married.George Bernard Shaw
Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams
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
He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.Benjamin Franklin
Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.Don Marquis
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
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
The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do.Jose Maria Peman, Spanish writer, El Divino Impaciente
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.Churchill
Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired.Venezuelan Prove
