Virtue Quotes

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.