Virtue Quotes

3568 Virtue quotes by 1599 unique authors

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihoodthe virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price,… — Theodore Roosevelt
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was… — Robert Anton Wilson
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those… — Aristotle
Fidelity is a virtue which should be frequently proved, but not always. — Omar Sharif
If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece, we died, and… — Simonides
Glory is the shadow of virtue — Latin Proverb
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue — FranÃ§ois De La Rochefoucauld
An individual who forces himself to accept this or that idea, or who pretends to accept this or that idea, not only on the ground… — Henry Louis Mencken
Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules. — William Blake
"What is liberty without...virtue? It is...madness, without restraint. Men are qualified for liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their… — Edmund Burke
Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity — William Shakespeare
Patience is a virtue — Proverb
'Tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow; But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so… — William Shakespeare
Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion — Jonathan Swift
Punctuality is a virtue, if you don't mind being lonely — Edward G Bulwer-Lytton
Popularity, next to virtue and wisdom, ought to be aimed at; for it is the dictate of wisdom, and is necessary to the practice of… — John Adams
That we have come as far as we have in forty years [the 1930s to the 1970s] is hopeful, though I believe it is more… — Isaac Asimov
May slavery be banished forever together with the distinction between castes, all remaining equal, so Americans may only be distinguished by vice or virtue... In… — Unknown Author
The resistance of a woman to a mans advances is not always a sign of virtue. Sometimes its just a sign of experience. — Ninon de L'Enclos
Maybe there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue, they's just what people does. Some things folks do is nice and some ain't so… — John Steinbeck

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