Virtue Quotes

Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.

Ruth Fulton Benedict

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

Sterne

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

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch, De Remedies

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

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

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

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

Maya Angelou

He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.

Benjamin Franklin

Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.

Matthew Prio