Virtue Quotes

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature - publicly funded schools cannot offer the type of spiritual education that Catholic schools have long provided.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and how we handle the subject matter that we've been given, that's kind of how it's evolved in certain ways.

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.