Virtue Quotes

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

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

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.