Virtue Quotes

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.