Virtue Quotes
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.
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Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.
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No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell, if on where not endowed with th five cardinal virtues of Confucius-benevolence, justice, courtesy, wisdom and fidelity
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Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.
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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
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Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
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And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?
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Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal.
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Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice.
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When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
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If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.
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Prudence is the virtue of that part of the intellect the calculative to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
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I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.
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He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.
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The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.
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You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
