Virtue Quotes
Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.
John Milton
A woman mixed of such fine elements
That were all virtue and religion dead
She'd make them newly, being what she was.
George Eliot
The great virtue, I think, of studying Aristotle - and, more importantly, taking him seriously as a possible teacher - is that he presents an alternative view of both science and the world.
David Roochnik
No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.
Whitney M. Young
Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job, or a slum mother battling to give her kids a chance for a better life. But white is beautiful, too, when it helps change society to make our system work for black people also. White is ugly when it oppresses blacks-and so is black ugly when black people exploit other blacks. No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.
Whitney M. Young
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
William James
In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
Miguel de Cervantes
Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.
Thomas Carlyle
My heart laments that virtue cannot live
Out of the teeth of emulation.
William Shakespeare
What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
Confucius
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
Seneca the Younger
He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Napping is too luxurious, too sybaritic, too unproductive, and it's free; pleasures for which we don't pay make us anxious. Besides, it seems to be a natural inclination. ... Fighting off natural inclinations is a major Puritan virtue, and nothing that feels that good can be respectable.
Barbara Holland
Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.
William Shakespeare
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.
Thomas Aquinas
Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.
Dante Alighieri
The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.
Aristotle
No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
