Virtue Quotes
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Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me?
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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.
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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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He used to say that virtue could make herself devoted friends, but she did not take pupils.
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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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From virtue all happy states arise.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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More things to remember: 7) The value of time; 8) The pleasure of working; 9) The obligation of duty; 10) The power of kindness; 11) The wisdom of economy; 12) The virtue of patience.
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Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason.
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War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if not impossible, thing to understand, yet we feel compelled to describe it as though it has meaning - even virtue. It starts for reasons often hopelessly obscure, meanders on, then stops.
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Virtue is the strength and power of daughters of God. ... If all humanity really understood the importance of the statement ‘We are daughters of our Heavenly Father,’ how would women be regarded and treated?
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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 or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
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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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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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The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.
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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
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Assume a virtue if you have it not.
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Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not at all the same person, when I handed the manuscript to the publisher, as I had been when I began. A memoir may always be retrospective, but the past is not where its action takes place.
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Patience may be a virtue, but quitting is an art.
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Everyone needs resilience. It's a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness.
