Virtue Quotes
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Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.
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Virtue is nothing else than right reason
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Unfortunately, too many executives believe the myths about trust. Myths like how trust is soft and is merely a social virtue. The reality is that trust is hard-edged and is an economic driver.
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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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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.
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It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked.
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To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
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Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.
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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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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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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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Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.
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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 art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.
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It would seem that the ingratitude, whereby a subsequent sin causes the return of sins previously forgiven, is a special sin. For, the giving of thanks belongs to counter passion, which is a necessary condition of justice. But justice is a special virtue. Therefore this ingratitude is a special sin. Thanksgiving is a special virtue. But ingratitude is opposed to thanksgiving. Therefore ingratitude is a special sin.
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Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason.
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You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.
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It's a poor sort of virtue that has no roots in love. It's why you do or don't do a thing that matters most to my mind. If love of God comes first with you then you deny yourself to keep His commandments, you give away your whole life to Him and glory in what the world calls loss.
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Even if I tried to tell myself that I had given him nothing, that the children were mostly mine, that they had remained within the radius of my body, subject to my care, still I couldn't avoid thinking what aspects of his nature inevitably lay hidden in them. Mario would explode suddenly from inside their bones, now, over the days, over the years, in ways that were more and more visible. How much of him would I be forced to love forever, without even realizing it, simply by virtue of the fact that I loved them? What a complex foamy mixture a couple is. Even if the relationship shatters and ends, it continues to act in secret pathways, it doesn't die, it doesn't want to die.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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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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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.
