Character Quote by Edmund Burke

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

— David Brooks

Shame is the dying embers of virtue.

— Josh Billings

Virtue is its own punishment.

— Aneurin Bevan

“Virtue lies in moderation”

— Aristotle

Whatever happens, the path of virtue should not be given up.

— Sathya Sai Baba

Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.

— William Saroyan

There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those…

— John Tillotson

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

— Brené Brown

“there is a limit of ignominy, beyond which man's consciousness of shame cannot go, and after which begins satisfaction in shame?”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.”

— Shannon L. Alder

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

— Josh Billings

All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.

— Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie