Virtue Quotes
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
Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world.Euripides
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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
Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.Voltaire
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
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 great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.Theodore Roosevelt
What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.Ruth Fulton Benedict
The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.Socrates
The home is the chief school of human virtues.William Ellery Channing
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
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 is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.Benjamin Franklin
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.Clive Staples Lewis
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.Whitheead
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.Quintilian
Virtue is its own punishment.Aneurin Bevan
Self - Denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.George Bernard Shaw
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
A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.John Locke
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
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.Sterne
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.Jean - Jacques Rousseau
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.David Starr Jordan
Blushing is the color of virtue.Laertius Diogenes
What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.Henry David Thoreau
Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.Mae West
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If virtue precede us every step will be safe.Seneca
Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.Dinesh D? Souza
