Virtue Quotes

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

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

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

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.

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.