Virtue Quotes

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.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

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.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

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.

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

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

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.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.