Virtue Quotes

Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Uncommon valor was a common virtue.

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty.

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Virtue is harmony.

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.