Virtue Quotes

Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Virtue is harmony.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.