Virtue Quotations

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia.

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my natural proclivity toward attaining my own freedom, meaning, value, worth, and righteousness - not believing that, by virtue of my Spirit - wrought union with Christ, everything I need, I already possess.

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.

To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture.

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space,

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you. It is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one.

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.

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

I ran on the platform of moderation and won the election by a large margin. By virtue of the strong mandate that I received from the electorate, I am committed to operating in the framework of moderation, which calls inter alia for a balance between realism and the pursuit of the ideals of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.

Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

But by virtue of our baptism, Peter Akinola and I are brothers in Christ and one day we are going to be in heaven together, so we might as well learn to get along here because we will have to get along there. God won't have it any other way.

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.

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

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength