Virtue Quotes

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.

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.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

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

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.

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

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Uncommon valor was a common virtue.

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.