Virtue Quotes

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.

I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by the virtue of what we're doing, then that's just a really nice added extra.

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.