Virtue Quotes

Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair.

Virtue is an angel but she is a blind one and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that l...

Virtue is too passive, too narrow. Virtue can motivate individuals, but for groups, societies, a who...

Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our lord may wish to work...

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

...I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become universal ...

To behold virtue in her proper form is nothing else but to contemplate morality stripped of all admi...

Of all fragrances, the sweetest is that of virtue.

In the Middle Ages there was no salvation outside the Church, and the theologians had a hard time ex...

As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of we...

I have observed that gentlemen suppose that the general legislature will do every thing mischievous ...

Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling...

One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's...

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

Ancient politicians talked incessantly about morality and virtue; our politicians talk only about bu...

Such is the pure movement of nature prior to all reflection. Such is the force of natural pity, whic...

From this moment there would be no question of virtue or morality; for despotism cui ex honesto null...

O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called ...

Really, seeing the amount we give in charity, the wonder is there are any poor left. It is a comfort...

It is only in virtue that you can discover, that you can live - not in the cultivation of a virtue, ...

virtue can flower only when there is freedom.

‎It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got ...

Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they wer...

Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of ...

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recov...

Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.

So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried a...

Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher t...

Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher t...

He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to u...

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar...

True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real ...

Asking children to grow virtues hydroponically, looking only within themselves for guidance, is like...

When men grow virtuous in their old age they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

The moral, I suppose, would be that the first requirements for a heroic career are the knightly virt...

Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the p...

I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.

Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.

Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely di...

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ab...

Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero wi...

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

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches. Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its...

One's outlook is a part of his virtue.

You do me proud, Captain. But, dear, I want to say one thing and then I'm done; for you don't need m...

It's highly virtuous to say we'll be good, but we can't do it all at once, and it takes a long pull,...

Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always before he...

The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates h...

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

Virtue has its own reward but no sale at the box office.

Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige tha...

For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both meri...

Her mind, shaped so long before my own, was for me the equivalent of what had been offered me by the...

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education wit...

Maximus was my model for self-control, fixity of purpose, and cheerfulness under ill-health or other...

The world goes this way and that. Ideas are in fashion or not, and those who should prevail are ofte...

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.

In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measur...

Oh! my friend, never seek to corrupt the person whom you love, it can go further than you think...

...those who deny or oppose these so pleasant delights (of virtue), do so only from jealousy, you ma...

Do the meager pleasures you have been able to enjoy during your fall compensate for the torments whi...

If, though full of respect for social conventions and never overstepping the bounds they draw round ...

Believe me, Eugenie, the words "vice" and "virtue" supply us only with local meanings. There is no a...

The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or u...

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

The little respect paid to chastity in the male world is, I am persuaded, the grand source of many o...

Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when ...

For what are in reality the things we call ‘Wisdom,’ ‘Virtue,’ ‘Heroism,’ ‘sublime hours,’ and ‘grea...

Of what avail are my loftiest thoughts if I have ceased to exist?” there are some will ask; to whom ...

Humility is a virtue and it is a virtue innate in guests.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any oth...

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtu...

I prefer an accommodation vice to an obstinate virtue.

My hate is general, I detest all men;Some because they are wicked and do evil,Others because they to...

Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of ...

Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming...

Virtue is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices requiring effort and concentra...

The challenge for people today--and it is not and easy one--is to maintain high personal standards e...

That Archangel, now, " Miriam continued; "how fair he looks, with his unruffled wings, with his unha...

Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. -Oct 1986

I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodne...

Virtue alone is happiness; all elseIs else, and without praise.

Purity is obscurity.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented and rebellious, is probably a real persona...

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue.

Nichts Interessantes ist jemals richtig.

loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as muc...

Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves?

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

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of thesinful.

Virtue is health vice is sickness.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.