Virtue Quotes

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Too much virtue can be criminal.

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.

There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at the time. Three, I'm Cuban. But now, I've made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

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.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.