Virtue Quotes
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If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
Honore de Balzac
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God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
William Ellery Channing
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Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue:
His faults lie open to the laws; let them,
Not you, correct him.
William Shakespeare
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Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.
Confucius
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The one who is filled by virtue is like a newborn baby.
Lao Tzu
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Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made clean from all matter, have communion with the gods and join them in the governing of the whole world. Yet even if none of this happiness fell to their lot, virtue itself, and the joy and glory of virtue, and the life that is subject to no grief and no master are enough to make happy those who have set themselves to live according to virtue and have achieved it.
Sallust
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The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given
William Ames
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Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Praise is the reflection of virtue.
Francis Bacon
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Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.
William Cowper
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What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.
William Shakespeare
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He (the sage) is good to those who are good. He is also good to those who are not good. That is the virtue of good.
Lao Tzu
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One overriding fact dominates all of modern civilization, the fact that the property of a single person can increase indefinitely, and even, by virtue of almost universal consent, encompass the entire world.
Elisee Reclus
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A return to virtue must begin individually in our hearts and in our homes. You are the guardians of virtue.
Elaine S. Dalton
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A coerced "choice" does not reflect virtue, only compliance.
Wendy McElroy
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All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness
Stephen Fry
