Virtue Quotes

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

— Victor Hugo

There is no virtue in politics.

— Jeremy Limn

Courage is the virtue of the free.

— Daniel Quinn

Modesty is the color of virtue.

— Anonymous

Silence is the virtue of fools.

— Francis Bacon

Return animosity with virtue.

— Laozi

Virtue proceeds through effort.

— Euripides

Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.

— Indira Gandhi

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

— Joseph Addison

“When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

— Alexander Pope

Faith creates the virtues in which it believes.

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

— John Herschel

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

— Matthew Prior

The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.

— Ernest Renan

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.

— Maureen Corrigan

There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.

— Norm MacDonald

I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to…

— Philip Sidney

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones.

— Aristotle

“If you give evil nothing to oppose, then virtue will return by itself.”

— Lao Tzu

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his…

— Sinclair Lewis

All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter…

— Saint Francis de Sales

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil…

— Paul Gauguin

It is one thing to say, "Some men shall rule," quite another to declare, "All men shall rule," and that in virtue…

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact,…

— Charles M. Blow

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is…

— Francis Quarles

True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment. Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean,…

— Akkineni Nagarjuna

I would say that by virtue of your not acting parental up to this point, you've relinquished your ability to wield any…

— Maggie Stiefvater

statutory regulations, legislative enactments, constitutional provisions, are invasive. They never yet induced man to do anything he could and would not do…

— Emma Goldman

Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps…

— John Brown

To be ordinary is the greatest virtue - because when you are just ordinary, nothing to claim, of this world or that,…

— Rajneesh

But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all…

— Adam Weishaupt

Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the…

— Herbert Spencer

Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now…

— Saint Francis de Sales

The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce…

— Milton Friedman

It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount…

— Mark E. Petersen

Napping is too luxurious, too sybaritic, too unproductive, and it's free; pleasures for which we don't pay make us anxious. Besides, it…

— Barbara Holland

Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy, to teach our children…

— Ronald Reagan