Virtue Quotes
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.John Locke
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
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.George Bernard Shaw
Not to be cheered by praise, Not to be grieved by blame, But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers Are the characteristics of an excellent man.Saskya Pandita
Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice - Cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.Denis Diderot
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
Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self - Made sepulcher of a living man.Francis Quarles
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.Cicero
A revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.John Adams, (Diary, 1786)
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
Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.Franoise Mallet - Joris
To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.William Hazlitt
The man who willeth to do well... we should extol his virtues and speak not of his faults behind his back.Joseph Smith Jr.
Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.Mae West
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.Sterne
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.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.Mark Twain
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.Nikola Tesla
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.Abraham Lincoln
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.Erik H. Erikson
Bluntness is a virtue.Allison Ling
A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it.South
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.Aristotle
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.Cicero
The love of money is the root of all virtue.George Bernard Shaw
Is virtue a thing remote I wish to be virtuous, and lo Virtue is at hand.Confucius
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.William Butler Yeats
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.William Golding
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.Jean - Jacques Rousseau
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.Benjamin Franklin
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.G. K. Chesterton
Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.David Starr Jordan
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.D. H. Lawrence
To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.Benjamin Franklin, ?
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.Confucius
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.George Washington
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
Virtue they will but abuse, and taunt her with bitter revilling.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Book Eleven
