Virtuous Quotes

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

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.

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle.

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, 'I can be anyone.'

You can be a virtuous person without faith in God.

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.