Virtue Quotes

• 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.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Sins
  • Weaknesses
  • Identification

• The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.

  

  Sallust
  • Beauty
  • Virtue
  • Fame

• The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.

  

  Aristotle
  • Man
  • Excellence
  • Souls

• The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.

  

  Moliere
  • Virtue
  • Glory
  • Obstacle

• So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Virtue
  • Creature
  • Human Knowledge

• I have not lost my faith; and this I must attribute more to a miracle than to my own wisdom; more to Divine Providence than to my own virtue. Steadfastly, in fact from my earliest childhood, I have made this my prayer, "Lord God... grant me long life, and wisdom, and health of mind and body."

  

  Gerolamo Cardano
  • Faith
  • Wisdom
  • Virtue

• To Virtue's humblest son let none prefer Vice, tho' descended from the Conqueror.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Son
  • Virtue
  • Conqueror

• The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.

  

  William Godwin
  • Humans
  • Capacity
  • Application

• It is an act of virtue to deceive and lie, when by such means the interest of the church might be promoted.

  

  Elton Welsby
  • Church
  • Lying
  • Interest

• I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

  

  Moliere
  • Virtue
  • Prefer
  • Vice

• I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

  

  Cato the Elder
  • God
  • Anger
  • Silent

• Atheism believes that truth for truth's sake is the highest ideal and that virtue is its own reward.

  

  Joseph Lewis
  • Truth
  • Atheism
  • Reward

• See, this is the way I see it. Not all anger is the same. Because there are different kids of anger. And you know what else - sometimes, anger is a virtue. As long as you're not making someone bleed.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Virtue
  • Anger
  • Bleed

• Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Virtue
  • Sin
  • Impossibility

• There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of life's circumstances to a familiarity with the vices he condemns the most vehemently – without his completely recognizing this vice which, disguised as certain events, touches him and wounds him: strange words, an inexplicable attitude, on a given night, of the person whom he otherwise has so many reasons to love.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Life
  • Love
  • Person

• The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Soul
  • Knowledge
  • Virtue

• Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Truth
  • Passion
  • Virtue

• Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Child
  • Virtue
  • Gratitude

• Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Writing
  • Water
  • Evil

• 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.

  

  Wang Yangming
  • Believe
  • Mistake
  • inspirational

• Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Action
  • Virtue
  • Conscience

• Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

  

  Plato
  • Women
  • Virtue
  • Praise

• The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • May
  • Punishment
  • Motive

• Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

  

  Moliere
  • Work
  • Books
  • Fame

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