Virtue Quotes
The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.Marcus Valerius Martialis
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.Oscar Wilde
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.Greek Prove
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.Victor Hugo
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
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.G. K. Chesterton
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
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.John Kenneth Galbraith
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
Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.Dante Alighieri
What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 2 scene 1
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.Benjamin Franklin
There is no virtue in being uncritical nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.Richard Livingstone
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.Quintilian
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.Robert Hall
Bluntness is a virtue.Allison Ling
The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do.Jose Maria Peman, Spanish writer, El Divino Impaciente
Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.William Shakespeare
And be on they guard against the good and the just They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue - - They hate the lonesome ones.Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.Mary Bertone
What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married.George Bernard Shaw
A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it.South
Is virtue a thing remote I wish to be virtuous, and lo Virtue is at hand.Confucius
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
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
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.Ruth Fulton Benedict
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.Whitheead
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
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.Baruch Spinoza
Virtue does not come from wealth, but... wealth, and every other good thing which men have... comes from virtue.Socrates
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
Self - Denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.George Bernard Shaw
