Virtue Quotes

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

[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.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

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

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

We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.

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

Satan often paints sin with virtue's colors.

This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the problem before us.

Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.

The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.

There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt.

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue.

Every great robbery that was ever perpetrated upon a people has been by virtue of an in-the-name-of law.

Be the Worst You Can Be: Life's Too Long for Patience and Virtue

There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost

Gratitude is not a fair weather virtue. True gratitude means appreciating your life no matter what the storms may bring. Is simply being alive gift enough for you to feel grateful?

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

People generally report higher levels of stress, depression, and tension after watching TV. It seems that TV's main virtue is that it occupies the mind undemandingly.

A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.

Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.

When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.

There is no greater virtue than honesty.

Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.

Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.

There is no virtue if there is no immortality.

Courage, energy and patience are the virtues which appeal to my heart.

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.

The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.