Virtue Quotes

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Everybody's part of the greater whole and skepticism and virtue are a part of that.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.