Virtue Quotes

3568 Virtue quotes by 1599 unique authors

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost… — Charles Caleb Colton
The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their… — Confucius
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never… — Confucius
When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he… — Confucius
The rewards of integrity are immeasurable. One is the indescribable inner peace and serenity that come from knowing we are doing what is right; another… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Two great virtues . . . give a man power with the heavens - integrity and purity of character. Let a man possess these, let… — Wilford Woodruff
The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the day is long.… — Richard Rodriguez
Virtue is nothing else than right reason — Seneca the Younger
As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make… — Michel de Montaigne
for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been… — Aristotle
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character. — Baruch Spinoza
True virtue is life under the direction of reason. — Baruch Spinoza
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue. — Seneca the Younger
The gospel teaches us that true beauty is more than skin-deep. A young woman whose countenance is aglow with both happiness and virtue radiates inner… — Lynn G. Robbins
It can happen that when we are at prayer some brothers come to see us. Then we have to choose either to interrupt our prayer… — John Climacus
The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences… — Aristotle
I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of virtue. There is… — Thaddeus Golas
Things of heaven cannot be obtained by perseverance; they are the grace of God. To open to this and trust in it is how belief… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Seek the outstanding mental conflict in the person, give him the remedy that will overcome that conflict and all the hope and encouragement you can,… — Edward Bach
The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who do not know… — Al-Shafiâ€˜i
For He is in the midst of us day and night [in the Blessed Sacrament]; He dwells in us with the fullness of grace and… — Pope Paul VI
Only through the Eucharist is it possible to live the heroic virtues of Christianity: charity, to the point of forgiving one's enemies; love for those… — Pope John Paul II
It is the Sacrament of Love that excites the soul to ardent prayer. It stirs up the virtue of impetration and, as it were, forces… — Angela of Foligno
It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our… — Marquis de Sade
Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards. — George Farquhar

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