Virtue Quotes

I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.

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

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.