Virtue Quotes

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Prove

What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married.

George Bernard Shaw

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

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Sallust

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Ludwig van Beethoven

A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bluntness is a virtue.

Allison Ling

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, 1653

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

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

Cicero

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

Samuel Butle

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

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

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

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

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

Cicero

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Hugh Prathe

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 2 scene 1

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

Sir Winston Churchill

Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams

One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue.

Juvenal

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

Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.

Mae West

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.

Francis Bacon

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

George Bernard Shaw

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.

Sir Francis Bacon

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Quintilian

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

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

Xenophon

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri Frdric Amiel

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

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch, De Remedies

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Thomas Paine

Suffering. We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Anatole France

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

Henry Kissinge

The love of money is the root of all virtue.

George Bernard Shaw

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Jean - Jacques Rousseau