Virtue Quotes

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature - publicly funded schools cannot offer the type of spiritual education that Catholic schools have long provided.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and how we handle the subject matter that we've been given, that's kind of how it's evolved in certain ways.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.