What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions…

It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage."…

— Alice Hoffman

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently

— Maya Angelou

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

— C. S. Lewis

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which…

— Joseph Pulitzer

These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition…

— Samuel Johnson

Courage and clemency are equal virtues.

— Delarivier Manley

The order of things consents to virtue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in…

— Abraham Lincoln

“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between…

— Marcel Proust

... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a…

— Charles Dickens

The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden…

— Daniel K Judd

Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.

— Charles Caleb Colton

A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to…

— Anonymous

Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man…

— Robert A. Heinlein