Virtue Quotes
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.Ludwig van Beethoven
The home is the chief school of human virtues.William Ellery Channing
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
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.Frank Zappa
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)
He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.Benjamin Franklin
What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.Thomas Jefferson
A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it.South
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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
Virtue they will but abuse, and taunt her with bitter revilling.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Book Eleven
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
Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.Marcus Valerius Martialis
And be on they guard against the good and the just They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue - - They hate the lonesome ones.Friedrich Nietzsche
Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.Matthew Prio
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.Sterne
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.Marcus Tullius Cicero
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.Sir J. R. Seeley
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
Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.Don Marquis
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state - Of - The - Art technology.Robert E. Kahn
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
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
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
Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.William Shakespeare
Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.Gay
Virtue is insufficient temptation.George Bernard Shaw
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.Joseph Addison
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
Is virtue a thing remote I wish to be virtuous, and lo Virtue is at hand.Confucius
Bluntness is a virtue.Allison Ling
Virtue does not come from wealth, but... wealth, and every other good thing which men have... comes from virtue.Socrates
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.Sallust
Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice only the willingness to make it when necessary.Frederick Sherwood Dunn
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
