Virtue Quotes
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
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
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.John Kenneth Galbraith
Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.Franoise Mallet - Joris
Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.Joseph Addison
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.Cicero
Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.David Starr Jordan
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.Benjamin Franklin
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.Thomas Paine
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
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.- - Aristotle
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
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.D. H. Lawrence
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.Clare Booth Luce
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.George Bancroft
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.Benjamin Franklin
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
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.Alex Comfort
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.Harriet Beecher Stowe
There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.Tom Robbins
Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.Voltaire
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.Horace, Epistles
Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.Dinesh D? Souza
The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do.Jose Maria Peman, Spanish writer, El Divino Impaciente
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
If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.Francis Quarles
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.Thomas Hobbes, quoted from "Oxygen3, Panda Software
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
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.Sir Winston Churchill
Virtue is its own punishment.Aneurin Bevan
The man who willeth to do well... we should extol his virtues and speak not of his faults behind his back.Joseph Smith Jr.
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 proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.Benjamin Franklin, ?
If virtue precede us every step will be safe.Seneca
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
