Virtue Quotes
Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians.
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness.
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.
It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
Let us pray God, if He gives us any virtue or any gift, to keep it hidden even from ourselves, that we may preserve our humility, and not take occasion of pride because of it.
It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices.
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell.
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts.
Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice.
Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own character and that of the people becomes worse.
A man must commit a crime at least once in his life-time. Only then will his virtue be recognized
You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
Christianity is not about moving away from vice to virtue. It's moving away from virtue to Christ.
Be vigilant! Be vigilant! If an evil is minor, resist it nonetheless. If a good deed is trifling, perform it all the same. Only wisdom and virtue can truly win men's devotion.
That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.
The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source.
