Virtue Quotes
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Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man! (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he must delight in virtue. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
One's outlook is a part of his virtue. (Quote by - Amos Bronson Alcott)
Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound. (Quote by - John Armstrong)
Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness That even above the smiles and frowns of fate Exalts great Nature's favourites: a wealth That ne'er encumbers, nor can be transferr'd. (Quote by - John Armstrong)
Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul. (Quote by - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux)
What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err. (Quote by - George Chapman)
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. (Quote by - Cicero)
Honor is the reward of virtue. (Quote by - Cicero)
Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it. (Quote by - Cicero)
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. (Quote by - Cicero)
It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity. (Quote by - Cicero)
In the approach to virtue there are many steps. (Quote by - Cicero)
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. (Quote by - Cicero)
Virtue is indeed its own reward. (Quote by - Claudian)
Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing. (Quote by - Claudian)
Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell. (Quote by - Wilkie (William) Collins)
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand. (Quote by - Confucius)
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. (Quote by - Confucius)
All great virtues become great men. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)
The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue. (Quote by - William Cowper)
A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward. (Quote by - Minna Antrim)
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. (Quote by - Aristotle)
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Galatians 5:23, 2 (Quote by - Bible)
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women. (Quote by - Elizabeth Blackwell)
The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance. (Quote by - Christian Nevell Bovee)
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper. (Quote by - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. (Quote by - Alexander Comfort)
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them. (Quote by - Isadora Duncan)
The virtue in most request is conformity. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Virtue is the only true nobility. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. (Quote by - Georg C. Lichtenberg)
The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues. (Quote by - Lady Constance Lytton)
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest. (Quote by - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne)
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. (Quote by - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne)
Virtue is a sure anchor. (Quote by - Motto)
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire. (Quote by - Laurence Hope Nicolson)
If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, it suffices to avoid bad thoughts and to keep our souls turned toward the Lord. (Quote by - Philokalia)
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth. (Quote by - English Proverb)
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau)
Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them? (Quote by - Marquis De Sade)
Assume a virtue if you have it not. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. (Quote by - Adam Smith)
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself. (Quote by - Sir John Vanbrugh)
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. (Quote by - John Kenneth Galbraith)
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. (Quote by - George Santayana)
Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. (Quote by - Françoise Mallet-Joris)
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue. (Quote by - Don Marquis)
And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones. (Quote by - Fredrich Nietzsche)
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. (Quote by - Confucius)
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. (Quote by - Confucius)
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy. (Quote by - Richard Halloway)
Blushing is the color of virtue. (Quote by - Diogenes)
Virtue is insufficient temptation. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Be good and you will be lonesome. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience. (Quote by - Albert J. Nock)
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau)
The only reward of virtue is virtue. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous. (Quote by - Jawaharlal Nehru)
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it. (Quote by - Ed Howe)
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
