Virtue Quotes

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.

Much better stay in company!To love you must have someone else,Giving requires a legatee,Good neighb...

[On the virtuous man] "He combines the highest, lowest and middle chords in complete harmony within ...

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of ...

Then as for those who gaze upon many beautiful things but don't see the beautiful itself, and aren't...

...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possib...

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like ...

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.

Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they...

Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it toda...

The virtues are economists, but some of the vices are also...Pride is handsome, economical; pride er...

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

Do unto others…’ is a good rule of thumb. I live by that. Forgiveness is probably the greatest virtu...

I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without wor...

There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does ...

Most men—it is my experience—are neither virtuous nor scoundrels, good-hearted nor bad-hearted. They...

It was inevitable under a monarchy, however benevolent the monarch. The old virtues disappear. Indep...

The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.

Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. T...

Now I want you to remember something because I don't think we shall meet again very soon. It is this...

Who would want to enter the soiled Temple of Justice, wherein lies the corpse of justice, slain by h...

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love o fidelity. It is the foundat...

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the founda...

Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.

The ruthlessness of the godly invalidated their claims of virtue.

A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

One peculiarity of our present [ethical] climate is that we care much more about our rights than abo...

.. is there not one true coin for which all things ought to exchange?- and that is wisdom; and only ...

What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics ...

It takes a purely human courage to renounce the whole temporal realm in order to gain eternity, but ...