Virtue Quotes

Voltaire - men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that...
Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.
Gay
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Sir Winston Churchill
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
Virtue can only flourish among equals.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world.
Euripides
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
Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired.
Venezuelan Prove
Confucius, the confucian analects - he who exercises government by means of his...
To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.
Benjamin Franklin, ?
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes, quoted from "Oxygen3, Panda Software
C. c. colton - no company is preferable to bad, because we are...
Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.
Maya Angelou
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
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
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
Sir J. R. Seeley
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero
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
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
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
Hugh Prathe
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
William Shakespeare
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
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
If by saying that all men are born free and equal, you mean that they are all equally born; it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences.
Eugene Edwards
Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
A revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.
John Adams, (Diary, 1786)
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Virtue is its own punishment.
Aneurin Bevan
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Petrarch, De Remedies
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
William Shakespeare
To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
William Hazlitt
Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
George Bernard Shaw
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.
Francis Bacon
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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 inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Sir Winston Churchill
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
- - Aristotle
Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams