Virtue Quotes
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.Robert K. Merton
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.Clive Staples Lewis
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.Don Marquis
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.Seneca
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.John Dryden
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.Cicero
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.Cicero
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.Evelyn Waugh, Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)
There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.Pope Gregory The Great
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.Sir Francis Bacon, Of Adversity
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
Virtue they will but abuse, and taunt her with bitter revilling.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Book Eleven
He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.Benjamin Franklin
Blushing is the color of virtue.Laertius Diogenes
If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.I. F. Stone
Virtue is its own punishment.Aneurin Bevan
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.Austin Farra
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.Clare Booth Luce
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.D. H. Lawrence
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.Confucius
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.Cicero
Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.Franoise Mallet - Joris
Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.Joseph Addison
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.C. C. Colton
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.Benjamin Franklin
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.Confucius
Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.Dinesh D? Souza
From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of 8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.Barbara Ehrenreich
If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.Francis Quarles
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.Ruth Fulton Benedict
Is virtue a thing remote I wish to be virtuous, and lo Virtue is at hand.Confucius
What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.Henry David Thoreau
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.Robert Hall
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.Cato the Elde
