Character Quote by Anna Brownell Jameson

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

— Josh Billings

Five things constitute perfect virtue: gravity, magnanimity, earnestness, sincerity and kindness

— Confucius

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

— Thomas Aquinas

Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite…

— Albert Pike

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

— Joseph Butler

Virtue is nothing but an act of loving that which is to be beloved, and that act is prudence, from whence not to be…

— Francis Quarles

“PERFECT VIRTUE PRODUCES NOTHING, because it needs nothing. Production comes out of desire, production comes because you are imperfect. You create something as a…

— Osho

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

— Walter Scott

Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by…

— Seneca the Younger

“Virtue is a subordination of the passions to the intellect. It is to act in accordance with your highest convictions. It does not consist…

— Robert Ingersoll

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

— Boethius

No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.

— Jonathan V. Last