Virtue Quotes
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I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.
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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 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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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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The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
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A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.
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It's always been interesting to me how we mistake good genes for virtue.
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Being a model to the world, eternal virtue will never falter in you, and you return to the boundless.
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Love is a virtue and not a feeling. It is fed and fired by God- not by the favorable response of the beloved. Even when it doesn't seem to make a dime's worth of difference to the ones on whom it is lavished, it is still the most prized of all virtues because it is at the heart of the very character of God.
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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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The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for. It stands for everything we believe in and hope to achieve in the world.
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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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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.
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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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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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No worthy goal can be achieved easily. A virtue is born in suffering.
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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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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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There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.
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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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Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.
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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
