Virtue Quotes
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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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Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
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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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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.
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A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.
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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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It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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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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There is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.
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I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.
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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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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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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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Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun.
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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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We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
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There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.
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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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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
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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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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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Without Virtue there can be no liberty.
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The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of 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.
