Virtue Quotes

Mae west - virtue has its own reward, but no box office....
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
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 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
David starr jordan - wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it....
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
William Butler Yeats
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
Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.
Matthew Prio
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Cicero
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
Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams
From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of 8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Voltaire - it is an infantile superstition of the human...
Modesty and unselfishness - - These are the virtues which men praise - - And pass by.
Andr Maurois
Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
Marcus Valerius Martialis
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Seneca
Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.
Franoise Mallet - Joris
A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Virtue does not come from wealth, but... wealth, and every other good thing which men have... comes from virtue.
Socrates
Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.
Dinesh D? Souza
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Voltaire
Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.
Don Marquis
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Mary Bertone
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero
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 does not always demand a heavy sacrifice only the willingness to make it when necessary.
Frederick Sherwood Dunn
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Henry Kissinge
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Cicero
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde
Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self - Made sepulcher of a living man.
Francis Quarles
Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
William Shakespeare
The man who willeth to do well... we should extol his virtues and speak not of his faults behind his back.
Joseph Smith Jr.
God gives to every man virtue, temper, and understanding.
William Coope
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.
Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
Virtue can only flourish among equals.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine, "The Rights of Man", 1792