Virtue Quotes
To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.William Hazlitt
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
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
Silence is the virtue of fools.Sir Francis Bacon
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
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.Cicero
Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.Joseph Addison
There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.Pope Gregory The Great
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
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
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.Sallust
He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.Benjamin Franklin
That man is good who does good to others if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further it is heroic, it is perfect.La Bruyere
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 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
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.Mark Twain
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.Quintilian
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.George Bernard Shaw
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
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.William Butler Yeats
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.D. H. Lawrence
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors.... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.Claude Adrien Helvetius
Self - Respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.John Herschel
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
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Virtue is indeed its own reward.Claudianus
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.Clare Booth Luce
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
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.Ludwig van Beethoven
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.Thomas Jefferson
Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.Dante Alighieri
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
Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.Matthew Prio
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
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.Carl Sagan
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.William Shakespeare
