Virtue Quotes

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

Voltaire

Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far - Seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

- - Aristotle

Great necessities call out great virtues.

Abigail Adams

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

Sallust

Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...

Aristotle

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Plutarch, Morals

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

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 Aurelius Antoninus

Modesty and unselfishness - - These are the virtues which men praise - - And pass by.

Andr Maurois

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

Bernard of Chartres, 12th Century

If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.

I. F. Stone