Virtue Quotes

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Everybody's part of the greater whole and skepticism and virtue are a part of that.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.