Virtue Quotes
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.G. K. Chesterton
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
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.Joseph Addison
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.Thomas Paine
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.George Washington
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.Churchill
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
Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.Evelyn Waugh, Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)
Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.Marcus Valerius Martialis
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.George Bernard Shaw
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.Buddha
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The man who willeth to do well... we should extol his virtues and speak not of his faults behind his back.Joseph Smith Jr.
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state - Of - The - Art technology.Robert E. Kahn
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.Aristotle
Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.Don Marquis
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.Samuel Butle
Modesty and unselfishness - - These are the virtues which men praise - - And pass by.Andr Maurois
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.Sir Winston Churchill
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
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.Aristotle, Rhetoric
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despai
There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.Pope Gregory The Great
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.Seneca
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.Nikola Tesla
If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.Francis Quarles
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.George Bancroft
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.Plutarch, Morals
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.Ambrose Bierce
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.D. H. Lawrence
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.Aristotle
Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.Maya Angelou
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 Aelius Aurelius
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.Johann von Goethe
