Virtue Quotes
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Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me?
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Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.
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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.
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Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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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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A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates everywhere in time and space.
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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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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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The home is the chief school of human virtues.
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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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Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
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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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Everyone needs resilience. It's a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness.
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That which is inherent in man is his virtue.
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For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.
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Kindness is no common virtue. It is a rare gift.
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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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Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue-a virtue, indeed, in which we are surpassed by the lower animals; or else you would not hear people say, as brave as a lion.
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It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.
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This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.
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Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.
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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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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
