Virtue Quotes

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.

Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement

The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee!

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and cooperative relations in which people are enmeshed by virtue of group life.

Want of punctuality is a want of virtue.

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

Virtue lies in the middle ground.

Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.

Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.

In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.

Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.

Happiness and Prosperity are now within our Reach; but to attain and preserve them must depend upon our own Wisdom and Virtue.

Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.

It is your virtue, being men, to try; And it is ours, by virtue to deny.

Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

From virtue all happy states arise.

Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.

Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

When you cannot be just through virtue, be so through pride.

Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws.

Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass and transforms it into its own nature.

Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.

A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.