Virtue Quotations | Page 6

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be better or even to feel like oneself is better than a fellow human being. What is wrong is to gloat in one's own virtue. Therefore, gloating in one's own virtue is not virtuous.

As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them in yourself also.

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

Courage, energy and patience are the virtues which appeal to my heart.

The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds.

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled...

Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.

What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of virtue. There is no quality so becoming, no attire so attractive.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.

Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.

It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.

Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.

The woman had a humble, cringing manner. Of course, she had discovered that, having neither money nor virtue, she had better be humble if she knew what was good for her.

There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost

My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.

Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward.

Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?

Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]

Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

I wrap myself up in virtue. [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]

Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried. [Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori Coelum, negata tentat iter via.]

The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.

If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.

Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.

I hope that each of you girls will become an individual of significant worth and a person of virtue so that your contributions are maintained in both human and eternal terms.

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.

There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.

Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.

It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.

When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.

Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.

I see no virtue where I smell no sweat.

I chiefly made it my own care to initiate her very infancy in the rudiments of virtue, and to impress upon her tender years a young odium and aversion to the very sight of men.

I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield itself upon honest and lawful terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.

I do not need your garlands and fruits. They are not genuinely yours. Give me something that is yours, something which is clean and fragrant with the perfume of virtue and innocence and washed in the tears of repentance.

Come, O sisters - let's make virtue our charms. Let's join the Saints, and enjoy the pleasure of the Lord's Love.

I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.

Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.

Virtue knows no color line ...

If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all evens out in the end.

What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.

Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.

The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.

Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.

Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in us whereby our inner being is progressively changed, freeing us more and more from sinful traits and developing within us over time the virtues of Christlike character.

Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures.

Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.

When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?

He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.

No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.

Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.

We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem

The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.

Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

Virtue is not photogenic.

Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.