Virtue Quotes

Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of ...

Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming...

Virtue is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices requiring effort and concentra...

The challenge for people today--and it is not and easy one--is to maintain high personal standards e...

That Archangel, now, " Miriam continued; "how fair he looks, with his unruffled wings, with his unha...

Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. -Oct 1986

I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodne...

Virtue alone is happiness; all elseIs else, and without praise.

Purity is obscurity.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented and rebellious, is probably a real persona...

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue.

Nichts Interessantes ist jemals richtig.

loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as muc...

Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves?

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend i...

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of thesinful.

Virtue is health vice is sickness.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Much better stay in company!To love you must have someone else,Giving requires a legatee,Good neighb...

[On the virtuous man] "He combines the highest, lowest and middle chords in complete harmony within ...

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of ...

Then as for those who gaze upon many beautiful things but don't see the beautiful itself, and aren't...

...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possib...

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like ...

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.

Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they...

Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it toda...

The virtues are economists, but some of the vices are also...Pride is handsome, economical; pride er...

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

Do unto others…’ is a good rule of thumb. I live by that. Forgiveness is probably the greatest virtu...

I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without wor...

There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does ...

Most men—it is my experience—are neither virtuous nor scoundrels, good-hearted nor bad-hearted. They...

It was inevitable under a monarchy, however benevolent the monarch. The old virtues disappear. Indep...

The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.

Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. T...

Now I want you to remember something because I don't think we shall meet again very soon. It is this...

Who would want to enter the soiled Temple of Justice, wherein lies the corpse of justice, slain by h...

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love o fidelity. It is the foundat...

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the founda...

Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.

The ruthlessness of the godly invalidated their claims of virtue.

A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

One peculiarity of our present [ethical] climate is that we care much more about our rights than abo...

.. is there not one true coin for which all things ought to exchange?- and that is wisdom; and only ...

What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics ...

It takes a purely human courage to renounce the whole temporal realm in order to gain eternity, but ...

So there is nothing inherently subversive about pleasure. On the contrary, as Karl Marx recognized, ...

The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.

Cling to the One who clings to nothing;And so clinging, cease to cling.

The vast world rainless, one may bid adieuTo charity and penance.

Those are fools however learnedWho have not learned to walk with the world.

It is politics to please and hoodwink thoseWho flatter but despise us.

Conquer with forbearanceThe excesses of insolence.

Folded hands may conceal a dagger --Likewise a foe's tears.

It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who p...

Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues,Which moves the world.

Make foes of bowmen if you must,Never of penmen.

Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.

When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed.

The immoral can no more earn respectThan the envious be rich.

She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a hel...

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.

He who on earth has lived in the conjugal state as he should live, will be placed among the Gods who...

Even if someone does something that brings bad to you,do something good for them and make them feel ...

Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will.

I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them--one or two of them parti...

Oskar showed that virtue emerged where it would, and the sort of churchy observance bishops called f...

The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against ...

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

It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can n...

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most indepe...

If a man has no vices he's in great danger of making vices about his virtues and there's a spectac...

Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.

Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would no...

Some men may be snared by beauty alone, but none can be held except by virtue and compliance.

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars ...

In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jigg...

If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.

What are your chief vices? And virtues? I have no vices. The concept doesn't exist in my vocabulary....

But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of tho...

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the...

That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encoura...