Virtue Quotes

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.

For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

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

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

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars That make ambition virtue.

Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it may not, and perhaps ought not to be supplied by prudence.

no one ever gossips about the virtues of others

The gospel teaches us that true beauty is more than skin-deep. A young woman whose countenance is aglow with both happiness and virtue radiates inner beauty.

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.

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

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul.

In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than another.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.

Let frugality and industry be our virtues.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

Virtue has needs of limits.

Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Honor is the reward of virtue.