Virtue Quotes
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A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.
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Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but women who have been dealt a hand for life and play each card one at a time the best way they know how. No mother is all good or all bad, all laughing or all serious, all loving or all angry. Ambivalence rushes through their veins.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.
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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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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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Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.
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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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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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The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
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Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun.
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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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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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Without Virtue there can be no liberty.
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There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.
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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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I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.
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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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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.
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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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How is it possible to live in world where people can rule millions of others? It's incredible! It's like we've gone back to the 12th century. That's what happens when you decapitate intelligentsia and repeatedly traumatize and brutalize a country for decades on end: you do not get virtue. Victims do not make nice people.
