Virtue Quotes
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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.
Francis Chan
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Without Virtue there can be no liberty.
Benjamin Rush
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I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.
Terry Eagleton
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In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.
Brennan Manning
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I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.
Helen Keller
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The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.
Ernest Renan
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
Ajahn Chah
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To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius
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Virtue alone is true nobility.
William Gifford
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When we have faith and discipline everything becomes easier. Patience is the mother of all virtues. With anxiety all our lives become worse.
Chico Xavier
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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin
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It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
Seneca the Younger
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Virtue is indeed its own reward.
Claudius Claudianus
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The Liberal Party of Canada has no monopoly on public service, we have no monopoly on virtue, and we have no monopoly on wisdom.
Michael Ignatieff
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Reward is its own virtue.
Carolyn Wells
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Myth: US housing market is in recovery. Fact: Big banks have been hiding their bloated home inventory, seized by virtue of home foreclosures.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.
Witold Gombrowicz
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Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last.
William Shakespeare
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Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
Seneca the Younger
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Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.
Baruch Spinoza
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Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
Thomas Carlyle
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
Moliere
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Indeed, until one tries it for himself, it is incredible what dignity there is in an old hat, what virtue in a time-worn coat, and how savory the dinner-table can be made without sirloin steaks and cranberry tarts.
Edmund Morris
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The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
John Ruskin