Virtue Quotes

3568 Virtue quotes by 1599 unique authors

The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law. — William of Auxerre
Leaders lead by virtue of who they are. — Kevin Cashman
We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but without… — James Davison Hunter
Will highly comprehensible code, by virtue of being easy to modify, inevitably be supplanted by increasingly less elegant code until some equilibrium is achieved between… — Brian Foote
Virtue is the beauty of the soul. — Socrates
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. — Van Wyck Brooks
Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled... — Christopher Hitchens
Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem — Jane Porter
Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of… — Pope Benedict XVI
The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement. — Aristotle
Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue. — Aristotle
My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Doubt is a difficult animal to master because it requires that we learn the difference between doubting God and doubting what we believe about God.… — Rachel Held Evans
Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time. — Malcolm Gladwell
He is the way, the truth, and the light, and no one can come back into the presence of our Father in heaven except through… — Ezra Taft Benson
Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. They are the source of all spiritual qualities: forgiveness, tolerance, all the virtues. They give meaning to our… — Dalai Lama
May we understand that joy is not a sin, sacrifice is not a virtue. — Paulo Coelho
The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices. — Nelson Mandela
The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for.… — Sargent Shriver
Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues. — Maya Angelou
In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity. — Brennan Manning
Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society. — Aristotle
The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world, and we should… — Toni Morrison
I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues. — Nicole Kidman
Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that's happening… — Nicole Kidman

Who Wrote These Virtue Quotes

1,599 authors contributed a total of 3,568 Virtue Quotes, led by these top contributors: