Virtue Quotes
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He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.
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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.
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The surest step toward joy in the morning is virtue in the evening.
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Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
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The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.
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Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.
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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.
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The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.
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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.
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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.
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It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.
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No one can deny you or grant you anything. It all comes to you by virtue of your vibration.
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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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Reward is its own virtue.
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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.
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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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Virtue alone is true nobility.
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If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just as content as to be in the midst of the active warfare. It is no virtue to love the Master's work better than the Master's will.
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Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life.
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I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.
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The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law.
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I tell myself it's a virtue, my failure to sleep in my own house, or at all. I tell myself that I spend more hours than most people aware that I am alive, and that over a lifetime this adds up to more living, more aliveness. I am more alive than the rest of my family. Which is my greatest night fear. Which is why I hunt. I don't ever want to be more alive than they are.
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And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.
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Virtue is indeed its own reward.
