Virtue Quotes
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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?
Every great robbery that was ever perpetrated upon a people has been by virtue of an in-the-name-of law.
I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.
No one can deny you or grant you anything. It all comes to you by virtue of your vibration.
It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.
Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence.
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
Struggle is the father of all things, virtue lies in blood, leadership is primary and decisive
It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.
Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.
War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life.
Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the tayl, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue
My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.
It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
Unclean spirits increase the passions in us, making use of our negligence, and inciting them. But the angels decrease our passions, inciting us to the perfection of virtue.
We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.
It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands
It’s true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choose not to pursue.
Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about...Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings, who don't have all the answers, to think that they do.
I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.
Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is the virtue that unites men and inspires their noblest efforts.
