Virtue Quotes
The home is the chief school of human virtues.William Ellery Channing
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
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.Francis Bacon
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
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.Cicero
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.Benjamin Franklin
Self - Respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.John Herschel
I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.Alex Comfort
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.Silius Italicus
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.Socrates
Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.William Shakespeare
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.William Shakespeare
Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.Matthew Prio
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Address on The Method of Nature, 1841
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
He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.Benjamin Franklin
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
The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.Lord Macaulay
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
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.George Washington
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.George Bernard Shaw
Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.Dante Alighieri
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.Cato the Elde
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.Horace, Epistles
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.John Kenneth Galbraith
Blushing is the color of virtue.Laertius Diogenes
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.Sallust
Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self - Made sepulcher of a living man.Francis Quarles
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
When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.Charles Horton Cooley
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.Nikola Tesla
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.Xenophon
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
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
