Virtue Quotes
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Patience is a virtue. Keep doing what you want to do and eventually things will happen.
Arian Foster
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Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.
William Shakespeare
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.
Confucius
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If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well, and must therefore have virtue, still inasmuch as all the citizens cannot be alike, the virtue of the citizen and of the good man cannot coincide. All must have the virtue of the good citizen - thus, and thus only, can the state be perfect; but they will not have the virtue of a good man, unless we assume that in the good state all the citizens must be good.
Aristotle
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The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.
Aristotle
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
William James
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In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.
Dante Alighieri
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The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.
Aristotle
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What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
Confucius
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There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.
Francis Arinze
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Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.
William Shakespeare
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Now I had lived long enough and had heard enough from urchins my age and from other slaves, to distrust the person who calls himself merciful, or just, or kindly. Usually these are the most cruel, niggardly and selfish people, and slaves learn to fear the master who prefaces his remarks with tributes to his own virtues.
Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
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Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.
Lao Tzu
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Thomas Aquinas
