Virtue Quotes
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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.
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As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
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If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue, for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.
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After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.
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It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God...
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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.
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We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.
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Patience is a virtue. Keep doing what you want to do and eventually things will happen.
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In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty.
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Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.
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Fidelity is an overrated virtue. I feel so because people hardly follow it and so it becomes overrated.
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The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. ... For the political man, the value of a religion must be estimated less by its deficiencies than by the virtue of a visibly better substitute.
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The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator to be praised because he trains his citizens to conquer and obtain dominion over their neighbors, for there is great evil in this.
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Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.
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Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.
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A return to virtue must begin individually in our hearts and in our homes. You are the guardians of virtue.
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Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.
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The last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake; and if at any time a man make a thing for the sake of something else, it is referred to his own good, whether his use, his pleasure, or his virtue.
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Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary
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To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
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Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.
