Virtue Quotes
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Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.
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As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.
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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.
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Again, it is possible to fail in many ways, while to succeed is possible only in one way; for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.
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Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.
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A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.
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Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.
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Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
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If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.
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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.
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I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
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Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.
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So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises authority over the rest. And the smallest class is the one which naturally possesses that form of knowledge which alone of all others deserves the title of wisdom.
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Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.
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If we don't love ourselves, we would not love others. When someone tell you to love others first, and to love others more than ourselves; it is impossible. If you can't love yourselves, you can't love anybody else. Therefore we must gather up our great power so that we know in what ways we are good, what special abilities we have, what wisdom, what kind of talent we have, and how big our love is. When we can recognize our virtues, we can learn how to love others.
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In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
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Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
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O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon me, O Jesus, so much carelessness, pardon such great ignorance. My God, Jesus my Love, Increated Goodness, what would have become of me if you had not drawn me to yourself? Open your heart to me, open to me your sacramental breast; I open mine to you.
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There is explosive power in virtue.
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Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
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The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.
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The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims.
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Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
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Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.
