Virtue Quotes

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
Benjamin Franklin
There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, 1653
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Francis Bacon
Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.
Gay
Joseph addison - self discipline is that which, next to virtue,...
Virtue does not come from wealth, but... wealth, and every other good thing which men have... comes from virtue.
Socrates
Sir francis bacon - silence is the virtue of fools....
Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...
Aristotle
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
Joseph Addison
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
Xenophon
If by saying that all men are born free and equal, you mean that they are all equally born; it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences.
Eugene Edwards
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despai
Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice only the willingness to make it when necessary.
Frederick Sherwood Dunn
When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.
Charles Horton Cooley
Modesty and unselfishness - - These are the virtues which men praise - - And pass by.
Andr Maurois
Samuel butle - if the headache would only precede the...
The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do.
Jose Maria Peman, Spanish writer, El Divino Impaciente
What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married.
George Bernard Shaw
All government - - Indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - - Is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of America
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
William Shakespeare
A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.
Victor Hugo
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.
Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.
Benjamin Franklin
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.
Silius Italicus
Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled.
The Hitopadesa
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle, Rhetoric
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
Cato the Elde
Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.
Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
Sir J. R. Seeley
He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.
Benjamin Franklin
God gives to every man virtue, temper, and understanding.
William Coope
Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
William Shakespeare
There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.
Pope Gregory The Great
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 home is the chief school of human virtues.
William Ellery Channing
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel