Virtue Quotes
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.Mark Twain
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.William Shakespeare
Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.Ayn Rand
A large part of virtue consists in good habits.William Paley
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.George Washington
There is no virtue in being uncritical nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.Richard Livingstone
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.- - Aristotle
To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.Benjamin Franklin, ?
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.Plutarch, Morals
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
Great necessities call out great virtues.Abigail Adams
Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice...Marquis de Sade, Justine
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.Francis Quarles
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.William Butler Yeats
Modesty and unselfishness - - These are the virtues which men praise - - And pass by.Andr Maurois
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.Aristotle, Rhetoric
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.Mary Bertone
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do.Jose Maria Peman, Spanish writer, El Divino Impaciente
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.Whitheead
Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.Voltaire
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.Barry Goldwate
Virtue is insufficient temptation.George Bernard Shaw
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.Ambrose Bierce
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors.... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.Claude Adrien Helvetius
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.William Shakespeare
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.Lord Macaulay
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
We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.Bernard of Chartres, 12th Century
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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
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
If virtue precede us every step will be safe.Seneca
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.Thomas Jefferson
