Virtue Quotes
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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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The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
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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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Virtue hidden hath no value.
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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.
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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 home is the chief school of human virtues.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.
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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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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or 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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We document, explain, justify, construct, organize: these are good things, but we do not succeed in coming to the whole. But we may as well calm down: construction is not absolute. Our virtue is this: by cultivating the exact we have laid the foundations for a science of art, including the unknown X.
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Until we are renewed in the spirit of our mind and illumined in every part, our very virtues are but taught practices grafted upon a corrupt bottom
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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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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.
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Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun.
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Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.
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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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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 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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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.
