Virtue Quotes
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Kindness is no common virtue. It is a rare gift.
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It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.
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The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.
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Everyone needs resilience. It's a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness.
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Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.
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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
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The real comfort was to have one's sins and weaknesses not explained away but understood and shared. John's identification of himself with Michael in so much was what he needed. He found strength in it... It struck him that it can be as much by our weakness as by our virtue that we can serve each other.
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Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
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In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.
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The divine element manifests itself (or show up) in man as well by his aptitude for science, than by his aptitude for virtue. True morality, true philosophy and true art are in their essence ("dans leur essence", Fr.) religious."
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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
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The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and character].
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True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.
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The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.
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Virtue must shape itself in deed.
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We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.
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Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass and transforms it into its own nature.
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The home is the chief school of human virtues.
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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
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When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.
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From virtue all happy states arise.
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Since human good is what humans ought to pursue, the pursuit of interest to Aristotle is then such activity of soul, that which constitutes human good, namely activity that attains desiderata, where the attainment is in accord with virtue.
