Virtue Quotes

South - a good inclination is but the first rude draught...
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.
Mark Twain
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
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
Churchill
He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.
Benjamin Franklin
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
Ricthe
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Mary Bertone
Whitheead - true courage is not the brutal force of vulgar...
There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.
Tom Robbins
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, 1653
Diogenes laertius, zeno - one ought to seek out virtue for its own sake,...
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
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.
Robert K. Merton
One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue.
Juvenal
Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
William Shakespeare
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.
Silius Italicus
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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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
Blushing is the color of virtue.
Laertius Diogenes
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
Greek Prove
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
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
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Petrarch, De Remedies
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Sir Winston Churchill
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
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
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
Self - Denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
George Bernard Shaw
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
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state - Of - The - Art technology.
Robert E. Kahn
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.
Cicero