Virtue Quotes

3568 Virtue quotes by 1599 unique authors

I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vain glory.… — Jean Baptiste Massillon
God, Who is by nature good and dispassionate, loves all men equally as His handiwork. But He glorifies the virtuous man because in his will… — Maximus the Confessor
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire. — Adela Florence Nicolson
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue. — Henry Bolingbroke
I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly… — Adam Braun
Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People. — Caleb Cushing
Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of… — Jane Porter
Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less… — Charlton Ogburn
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault — Henry Anatole Grunwald
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Cowardice is no virtue. — Swami Vivekananda
Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin. — Swami Vivekananda
The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se. — June Jordan
Purpose is a soft virtue- but it's what gives you steel in your spine. — Unknown Author
A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these… — John Jay Chapman
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues. — Arthur Helps
It's important for celebrities, environmentalists and world leaders to continue to increase education and eco-awareness through the forums provided to them naturally by virtue of… — Anne Frank
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend,… — Joseph Addison
Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love… — Maximilien Robespierre
The grandest virtue seems deficient. — Laozi
The sturdiest virtue seems fragile. — Laozi
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication. — Irving Babbitt
Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than… — Jane Austen
Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among… — Thomas Carlyle
Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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