Virtue Quotes
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The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
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That which is inherent in man is his virtue.
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I find myself feeling like Oscar in 'Sweat' just by virtue of cleaning the tables, wiping the bar down and picking up everybody's glasses - and not making eye contact, because that's the character. These are working-class, blue-collar people. These are the people I grew up with. It gets under your skin.
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A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.
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By practicing the virtues we cultivate the soil from which healthy emotions sprout; by letting go of our character defects we drain the swamp in which diseased emotions breed.
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It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.
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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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There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.
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Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun.
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We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
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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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You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?
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It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.
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The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
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In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.
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There is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.
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The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.
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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
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Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.
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Humility is the mother of all virtues. Humility says we are not in control, principles are in control, therefore we submit ourselves to principles. Pride says that we are in control, and since our values govern our behavior, we can simply do life our way.
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Without Virtue there can be no liberty.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.
