Virtue Quotes
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.
We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others
This vice brings in one hundred million francs in taxes every year. I will certainly forbid it at once - as soon as you can name a virtue that brings in as much revenue.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
Faith is not an easy virtue; but, in the broad world of a person's total voyage through time to eternity, faith is not only a gracious companion, but an essential guide.
All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.
It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.
If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security.
What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
God did not send a concept, an idea, or a virtue. He sent his Son. Follow the God of love, not love as your god.
Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.
If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.
Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.
The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort.
The soul that acquires the virtue of forgiveness won't find any more trouble. No matter what happens, he will know how to run his life.
If something doesnt feel normal to me, it must be wrong. Failing to have a shred of imaginative empathy is a virtue!
Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.
To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.
Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.
Your words bring me joy. Let the two of us unite to bring forth a world of peace and virtue.
Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous.
The Holy Eucharist is like a divine Storehouse filled with every virtue; God has placed It in the world so that everyone one may draw from It.
What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!