Virtue Quotes
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.Brendan Francis Behan
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.Sir Francis Bacon
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.William Golding
Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.Jean Baptiste Montegut
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
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.Whitheead
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
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.Sterne
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
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.Mary Bertone
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.Alex Comfort
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.William Butler Yeats
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.George Washington
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.Aristotle
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.Barry Goldwate
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.Austin Farra
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.Sir Winston Churchill
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.Clare Booth Luce
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
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
Virtue does not come from wealth, but... wealth, and every other good thing which men have... comes from virtue.Socrates
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
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.Robert K. Merton
Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state - Of - The - Art technology.Robert E. Kahn
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.John Locke
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
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.D. H. Lawrence
Not to be cheered by praise, Not to be grieved by blame, But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers Are the characteristics of an excellent man.Saskya Pandita
There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.Pope Gregory The Great
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.Quintilian
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.John Kenneth Galbraith
Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.Joseph Addison
