Virtue Quotes
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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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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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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Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action.
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Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.
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The soul that acquires the virtue of forgiveness won't find any more trouble. No matter what happens, he will know how to run his life.
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Patience may be a virtue, but quitting is an art.
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Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not at all the same person, when I handed the manuscript to the publisher, as I had been when I began. A memoir may always be retrospective, but the past is not where its action takes place.
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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
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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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It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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The allure of immodesty is not in what is seen but what is not seen. Modesty issues a challenge for one man to romantically earn your virtue.
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Lord Jesus Christ, you created me, you watched over me from infancy, kept my body from defilement, preserved me from love of the world, made me able to withstand torture, and granted me the virtue of patience in the midst of torments.
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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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Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.
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The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good; but a calculation of the Profitable.
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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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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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Virtue hidden hath no value.
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That which is inherent in man is his virtue.
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Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason.
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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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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
