Virtue Quotes

• In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Virtue
  • Hollywood
  • Hairdo

• Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.

  

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Country
  • Home
  • Forget

• Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

  

  Moliere
  • Virtue
  • Glory
  • Birth

• For virtue only finds eternal Fame.

  

  Petrarch
  • Virtue
  • Fame
  • Eternal

• Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Break
  • Office

• 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.

  

  Bob Sorge
  • Virtue
  • Report
  • Meditate

• 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.

  

  Sargent Shriver
  • World
  • Believe
  • Hope

• What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Happiness
  • Virtue
  • Common Sense

• I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through birth and death, Joy and sorrow, heaven and hell; And in the end I realized that I AM in everything and everything is in me.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Evil
  • Virtue
  • Sin

• Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.

  

  William Penn
  • Men
  • Liberty
  • Virtue

• In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

  

  Moliere
  • Society
  • Need
  • Virtue

• Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Sun
  • Virtue

• 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.

  

  Agatha of Sicily
  • Patience
  • Created
  • Watched

• We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

  

  Wilhelm Wundt
  • Concepts
  • Substance
  • Honour

• Faith is a term that makes ignorance sound like a virtue.

  

  Anthony Provenzano
  • Faith
  • Ignorance
  • Virtue

• 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.

  

  Dannah Gresh
  • Men
  • Challenges
  • Modesty

• Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Virtue
  • Dancing
  • Reward

• I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Virtue
  • Momentum
  • Balancing

• Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

  

  Simone Weil
  • Thought
  • Virtue
  • Genius

• I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Men
  • Kind
  • Mean

• 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.

  

  Paul Elmer More
  • God
  • Law
  • Doubting

• Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

  

  Moliere
  • Virtue
  • Hypocrisy
  • Vice

• The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law.

  

  William of Auxerre
  • Speak
  • Firsts
  • Natural

• We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

  

  William Penn
  • Love
  • Deserve
  • Praise

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