Virtue Quotes

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Too much virtue can be criminal.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.

There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at the time. Three, I'm Cuban. But now, I've made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.

The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.