Virtue Quotes

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

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

Brendan Francis Behan

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Oscar Wilde

Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...

Aristotle

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Sir Winston Churchill

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 Aurelius Antoninus

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Nikola Tesla

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Voltaire

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despai

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

Silius Italicus