Virtue Quotes

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.

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.

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

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.

Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.

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

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Remorse is the echo of a lost 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.