Virtue Quotes

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

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

William Ellery Channing

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

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Brendan Francis Behan

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Clive Staples Lewis

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elde

Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

Cicero

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

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

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

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Sallust

Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired.

Venezuelan Prove

Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Thomas Hobbes, quoted from "Oxygen3, Panda Software

Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

Voltaire

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

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.

Sir Francis Bacon

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Prove

All government - - Indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - - Is founded on compromise and barter.

Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of America

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

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Voltaire

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Cicero

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

George Bernard Shaw

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Barry Goldwate

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

Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.

David Starr Jordan

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

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

Bluntness is a virtue.

Allison Ling

Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

William Shakespeare

He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.

Benjamin Franklin

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

William Golding

Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.

Gay

Suffering. We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Anatole France