Virtue Quotes

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest.

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

I thank God that I have lived to see my country independent and free. She may long enjoy her independence and freedom if she will. It depends on her virtue.

Make great account of your precious trials, both interior and exterior; it is thus that the garden of Jesus is adorned with flowers, that is, with acts of virtue.

In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.

Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace - Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in Jesus you find everything.

The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

As long as the vice of gluttony has a hold on a man, all that he has done valiantly is forfeited by him: and as long as the belly is unrestrained, all virtue comes to naught.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.

A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue.

Avoid places that disturb your mind, and always remain where your virtues increase.

Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at market rates.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

I think my virtue was I never thought "This is impossible.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

Just as good and virtue, sin and evil can only be given in vigil. Who sleeps, sleeps; for the asleep there is no sin, just as there is no good, nor virtue. There is only sleep.

Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy

Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.

What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

Crazy frustration, about my lovin situation; When patience was a virtue...but I wasn't used to waitin.

The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character.

The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part of mankind.

What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.

There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.

Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.

It is unmanly. It is not some expression of macho virtue. It is the absolute antithesis of this. Real men don't bully women and children. Respect for women ... is so important.

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues.

Tenderness is a virtue.

Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians.

Character is the virtue of hard times.

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

We may look up to Armies for Defence, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any state should long remain free, where Virtue is not supremely honord.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.