Virtue Quotes
The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.
Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.
The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.
Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.
Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.
Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
Don't sell out your virtue and your value for something you think you want. Judas got the money, but he threw it all away and hung himself because he was so unhappy with himself.
All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.
This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.
The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.
I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d!
One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected.
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life.
The fierce and partial writers of the times, ascribing all virtue to themselves, and imputing all guilt to their adversaries, have painted the battle of the angels and the demons.
I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.
In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.