Virtue Quotes

Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.

If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Everyone dies whether one is good in their lifetime or evil in their lifetime. So virtue has no payback. Life is meaningless. When you die, you die!

Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.

Virtue is safe only when it is inspired.

Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

There is no virtue in denying the law of gravity, and there should be no virtue in denying the limitations of government. ... The more we glorify government, the more liberties we will lose.

When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness.

Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.

Ambition, the soldier's virtue.

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.

... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.

Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

Patience is a virtue Savannah, to tolerate delay. It implies self control and forbearance, as opposed to wanting what we want when we want it. Something to think about. . .

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

Virtue is to herself the best reward.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

Return animosity with virtue.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions.

Virtue is the truest liberty.

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.