Virtue Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

I'm really tired of virtue.

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.