Virtue Quotes

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Virtue is harmony.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.