Virtue Quotes

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

Somebody might say that they always wanted to be a fly-fishing guide in Montana and maybe they'll never get to do that but just by the virtue of having said it out loud, I think there's some power in that.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.

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.