Virtue Quotes

The first contributing factor to a happy home is the sublime virtue of loyalty, one of the noblest attributes of the human soul.

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.

Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.'

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.

It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.

Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.

Saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue

Get money first; virtue comes after.

A coerced "choice" does not reflect virtue, only compliance.

Sandalwood, tagara, lotus, jasmine - the fragrance of virtue is unrivalled by such kinds of perfume.

Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold.

Constancy is the complement of all the other human virtues.

The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.

If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself, since I am a human being too.

A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular effects to someone else, no one can trust for us.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.

Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

Virtue is indeed its own reward.

Patience is a virtue. Keep doing what you want to do and eventually things will happen.

Well, I think I’m a feminist, just by the virtue of the fact that I believe in equal rights for everyone.

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.

All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them in yourself also.

Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.

Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.

How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!

[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.