Virtue Quotes

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elde

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Aristotle, Rhetoric

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

John Dryden, Imitation of Horace

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce

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

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.

Diogenes Laertius, Zeno

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Clive Staples Lewis

Not to be cheered by praise, Not to be grieved by blame, But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers Are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Saskya Pandita

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