Virtue Quotes

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

Tenderness is a virtue.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

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.