Character Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

— Robert Hughes

Humility is a virtue; timidity is an illness.

— Jim Rohn

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.

— Carl von Clausewitz

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

— John Bradshaw

When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults.

— Pope Agapetus I

Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite…

— Albert Pike

Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings; that, by which every man proves his peculiar power of…

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

Virtue, for us, is obedience to God in Christ.

— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

— Aristotle