Virtue Quotes

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.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

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

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.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.