Virtue Quotes

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.

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.

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.

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.

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.