Virtue Quotes

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

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 have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Ayn Rand

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Francis Quarles

If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.

I. F. Stone

Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord.

W. T. Ussery

There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales

One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.

Juvenal

To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.

Benjamin Franklin, ?

Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world.

Euripides

Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Thomas Hobbes, quoted from "Oxygen3, Panda Software

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

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired.

Venezuelan Prove

A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Plutarch, Morals

Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

William Shakespeare

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

Ursula Le Guin

Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.

Gay

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

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

D. H. Lawrence

A large part of virtue consists in good habits.

William Paley

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

Samuel Butle

Blushing is the color of virtue.

Laertius Diogenes

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Joseph Addison

An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news - writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself.

Sir Henry Wotton, "Reliquae Wottonianae".

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

Mary Bertone

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Sallust

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitheead

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Thomas Jefferson

Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

Alex Comfort

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

George Bernard Shaw

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

Sterne

What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married.

George Bernard Shaw

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Nikola Tesla

Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.

Mae West