Virtue Quotes

Confucius, the confucian analects - the determined scholar and the man of virtue will...
Cicero - natural ability without education has more often...
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)
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
Thomas Jefferson
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
He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.
Benjamin Franklin
Self - Respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
John Herschel
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
John Locke
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.
Robert K. Merton
Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri
The man who willeth to do well... we should extol his virtues and speak not of his faults behind his back.
Joseph Smith Jr.
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
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
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
An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news - writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself.
Sir Henry Wotton, "Reliquae Wottonianae".
Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
George Bancroft
There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.
Pope Gregory The Great
Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord.
W. T. Ussery
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
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
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
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
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
Greek Prove
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
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwate
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Petrarch, De Remedies
What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
William Ellery Channing
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
Nikola Tesla
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
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Aristotle
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
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
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
William Shakespeare
Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.
Mae West
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
Joseph Addison
No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
C. C. Colton