Virtue Quotes · Page 132

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

— Alphonse Karr

It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.

— Andre Gide

The American founders, when framing their governments, looked to the Bible for insights into human nature, civic virtue, social order, political authority…

— Daniel L Dreisbach

Few, as I have said, are the humorists who can induce this state. To master and dissolve us, to give us the…

— Max Beerbohm

He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Love is the most necessary of all virtues. Love in the person who preaches the word of God is like fire in…

— Anthony Mary Claret

Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is…

— Conrad Hilton

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't…

— Lord Byron

Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance…

— Henry Fielding

Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within…

— Andrew Linzey

There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose…

— Henry David Thoreau

Humility is the mother of all virtues: the humble in spirit progress and are blessed because they willingly submit to higher powers…

— Stephen Covey

[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and…

— Iain Pears

I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.

— Henry David Thoreau

Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.

— Benjamin Franklin

Vice is its own reward.

— Quentin Crisp

“You do me proud, Captain. But, dear, I want to say one thing and then I'm done; for you don't need much…

— Louisa May Alcott

We cannot assume that people by virtue of the fact that they are black are going to associate themselves with progressive political…

— Angela Davis

We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.

— Philip Sidney

He who parades his virtues seldom leads the parade. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Health requires this relaxation, this…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which…

— Aristotle

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

— Phillip E. Johnson

It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield…

— Thomas Jefferson

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue

— William Penn

The sun alone appears, by virtue of his dignity and power, suited for this motive duty (of moving the planets) and worthy…

— Johannes Kepler

The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The…

— Michael Pollan

Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense…

— Agnes Repplier

Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you, but no, you will not be deceived. Stripped of all virtue as you…

— Bob Dylan

Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Virtue is the act by which one aims and/or keeps it.

— Ayn Rand

Those who foolishly pride themselves on their nobility mistake that which makes them noble, for it is only the virtue of their…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

— Joseph Addison

Christianity is reasonable in virtue of the impossibility of the contrary.

— Greg L. Bahnsen

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

— Benjamin Franklin

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I had the virtue of wanting to hang out with people who were more talented than me. I can't write songs, I…

— Tony Wilson

We didn't hear a word about the Clinton Global Initiative. We didn't hear a word about all the masterful, wonderful things they've…

— Rush Limbaugh

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our…

— Joseph Butler

Vices are their own punishment

— Aesop