Virtue Quotes
Great necessities call out great virtues.Abigail Adams
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.Confucius
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
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
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 only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.Cato the Elde
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do.Jose Maria Peman, Spanish writer, El Divino Impaciente
Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.Don Marquis
Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.Dante Alighieri
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.Quintilian
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.Cicero
From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of 8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.Barbara Ehrenreich
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
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 2 scene 1
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.- - Aristotle
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.Brendan Francis Behan
Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice - Cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.Denis Diderot
Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.Sir Francis Bacon, Of Adversity
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
What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.Mark Twain
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
Bluntness is a virtue.Allison Ling
Silence is the virtue of fools.Sir Francis Bacon
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.William Butler Yeats
Virtue is indeed its own reward.Claudianus
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.Barry Goldwate
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.John Locke
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
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.Lord Macaulay
Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.David Starr Jordan
