Virtue Quotes

Virtue knows no color line.

The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who do not know their own virtue.

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).

Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.

You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an ethical absolute. A person whose idea of what is proper varies from day to day can be admired for his broadmindedness, but not for his virtue.

Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.

My son, forbearance is a great virtue; there's no other like it.

Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues

Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

Only wisdom and virtue can truly win men's devotion.

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?

Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.

Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.

Justice is happiness according to virtue.

Whatever you do, do it gently and unhurriedly, because virtue is not a pear to be eaten in one bite.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

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.

Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

Humility, which is a virtue, is always fruitful in good works.

Purpose without virtue is vanity.

I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness.

Patience is a conquering virtue.

Vice is its own reward.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

Humility is the virtue that requires the greatest amount of effort.

There is no virtue higher than non-injury.

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

I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell.

The good life for man is the life spent in seeking for the good life for man, and the virtues necessary for the seeking are those which will enable us to understand what more and what else the good life for man is.

Virtue is not photogenic.

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not, as Kant was later to think, to act against inclination; it is to act from inclination formed by the cultivation of the virtues.

A man must commit a crime at least once in his life-time. Only then will his virtue be recognized

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.