Virtue Quotations | Page 7

Virtue is the health of the soul.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

Virtue is the first title of nobility.

Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

Birth is nothing where virtue is not

Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.

It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness.

As always, most media aligns with the presumptive winner even though their claimed societal virtue is to investigate those in power.

My good intentions are completely lethal.

There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.

Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

Virtue is its own reward.

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

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

That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.

In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

Many wish not so much to be virtuous, as to seem to be.

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!

True happiness lies in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.

Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.

Uniqueness isn't a virtue. It's a responsibility.

It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy...

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.

Every vice has its excuse ready.

Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.

Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants.

Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people.

Don't be limited in your views with regard to your neighbor's virtue...You must enlarge your soul towards each other.

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

Laziness is a programmers main virtue.

Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.

Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.

Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.

Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue.

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

The neuroses parody the virtues.

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

Vice is a dreary business. And virtue is not a lot of fun, either.

Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.

Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.

friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.

The poor attend to their own virtue in solitude.

The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.

Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.

Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.

The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.

Pride is both a virtue and a vice.

While one is asleep one cannot do anything that is good. Virtue is impossible in unconsciousness, only sin is possible. Unconsciousness is the source of sin.

My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices.

Patience is a virtue. (Tee) Excuse me, pot, could you not pick on the kettle? (Joe)

We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.

When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.

Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.

The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.

Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.

I'm interested in what the virtues of all those things are, especially for the kind of person who's made their own world that revolves around them, like writers do. It seems especially precious.

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.

In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.

Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.