Virtue Quotes

Let danger never turn you aside from the pursuit of honor or the service to your country ... Know that death is inevitable and the fame of virtue is immortal

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.

The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.

No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.

Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a whole life of virtue.

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.

No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.

For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.

Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and social virtue.

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?

Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.

The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.

To gain a reputation for virtue, grieve over those you injure.

We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.

Vice is a dreary business. And virtue is not a lot of fun, either.

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.

[A] free government . . . cannot be supported without Virtue.

Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Over Legislation is not necessarily a virtue. It often leads to misuse of law.

The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact that salvation is ours through the grace and mercy of God.

I have always lived my life by thriving on opportunity and adventure. Some of the best ideas come out of the blue, and you have to keep an open mind to see their virtue.

Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.

I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].

Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

Death, like virtue, has its degrees.

Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.

If good people would but make goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many they would win to the good cause.

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue.

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.