Virtue Quotes
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
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.Abraham Lincoln
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.Churchill
I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.William Butler Yeats
Self - Respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.John Herschel
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
Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.Maya Angelou
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.Saint Thomas Aquinas
Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.Dante Alighieri
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
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.Ricthe
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.Greek Prove
A large part of virtue consists in good habits.William Paley
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 2 scene 1
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.Jean - Jacques Rousseau
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
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
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life.Henri Frdric Amiel
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.Oscar Wilde
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.Benjamin Franklin
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
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.Brendan Francis Behan
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.George Washington
Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired.Venezuelan Prove
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.Carl Sagan
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.Ruth Fulton Benedict
Self - Denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.George Bernard Shaw
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.Rene Descartes
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.Confucius
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
God gives to every man virtue, temper, and understanding.William Coope
Virtue is indeed its own reward.Claudianus
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.William Shakespeare
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors.... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.Claude Adrien Helvetius