Virtue Quotes

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch, De Remedies

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.

Don Marquis

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

George Bernard Shaw

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Buddha

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Henry Kissinge

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Brendan Francis Behan

Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired.

Venezuelan Prove

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

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

Great necessities call out great virtues.

Abigail Adams

Virtue is its own punishment.

Aneurin Bevan

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

Alex Comfort

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Thomas Jefferson

Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord.

W. T. Ussery

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Thomas Paine, "The Rights of Man", 1792

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

Voltaire

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

Mary Bertone

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Johann von Goethe

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

Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

Hugh Prathe

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

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

Cornelius Tacitus

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

Churchill

The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.

Socrates

Virtue is indeed its own reward.

Claudianus

Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

William Shakespeare

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

Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world.

Euripides

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Aristotle

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Cicero

And be on they guard against the good and the just They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue - - They hate the lonesome ones.

Friedrich Nietzsche

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitheead

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.

Frank Zappa

Self - Denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

George Bernard Shaw

Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.

Ruth Fulton Benedict