Virtue Quotes · Page 104

“The ability to ask questions is a virtue and a trait of a free thinker.”

— Sabina Nore

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.

— Seneca the Younger

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

— Jean Paul

Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.

— Alexander Pope

Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If you cannot extol the virtue of your own creation, how can you expect others to?”

— Lynda Bester

It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end…

— Benjamin Graham

If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in…

— Anonymous

“I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbours' defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their…

— Anonymous

[The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame…

— Edward Gibbon

For our personal advancement in virtue and truth one quality is sufficient, namely, love; to advance humanity there must be two, love…

— Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Christian hope is not a ghost and it does not deceive. It is a theological virtue and therefore, ultimately, a gift from…

— Pope Francis

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm…

— John Milton

...just as the edifice of all the virtues strives upward toward perfect prayer so will all these virtues be neither sturdy nor…

— John Cassian

The United States is probably the most [socially] mobile society in the history of the world. The virtues that are most valuable…

— George Gilder

Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which…

— John Dewey

What I've learned by going out and playing smaller venues and being more in touch with people is getting feedback, just by…

— Ronnie Dunn

Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of…

— Boyd K. Packer

The institutions that claim to represent God, when they are not ignored altogether, are treated like other human institutions that have to…

— Richard Holloway

“If all were perfect, what should we have to suffer from others for God's sake? But God has so ordained, that we…

— Thomas à Kempis

“Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred. For no one except the greatest of fools would hate…

— Boethius

“A virtue that only causes havoc and unhappiness is worth nothing. You can call it virtue if you like. I call it…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.

— Horace

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

— Moliere

“The word "virtue" was once found in so many ancient quotes, yet now seems lost in our modern lives.”

— Robert Colton

Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.

— Margot Asquith

Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

— Thomas Chalmers

And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.

— Homer

Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in…

— François-René de Chateaubriand

“Never try to lock the virtue’s door with the key of vice It may lock forever; never to be opened again”

— Munia Khan

There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a…

— Washington Irving

The most important thing is to be strong. With strength, one can conquer others, and to conquer others gives one virtue.

— Mao Zedong

By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional…

— Anonymous

Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice…

— John Tillotson

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

— Mark Kingwell

Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.

— Jonathan V. Last