Virtue Quotes

Virtue Quote of the day

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Virtue knows no color line.

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.

The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who do not know their own virtue.

It's no virtue to gain the whole world. Just gain the heart of one person.

Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.

Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy sideThy every action let the goddess guide.

I am a sacrifice to the Guru, who has totally cured me of the fatal disease of egotism. Glorious and great are the virtues of the Guru, who has eradicated evil, and instructed me in virtue.

Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in vice from the flattery of his senators.

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.

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.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness.

A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.

The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities, the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue

When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

There is no treasure equal to contentment and no virtue equal to fortitude.

You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.