Virtue Quotes
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The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prudence is the virtue of the senses. […] It is content to seek health of body by complying with physical conditions, and health of mind by the laws of the intellect.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we’re practically showered with them.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Virtue - to be good and just - Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell. - The Vision of Sin
Quote by -Alfred Lord Tennyson
Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss
Quote by -John Milton
I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.
Quote by -Hugh Laurie
"Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues."
Quote by -Napoleon Bonaparte
"The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue."
Quote by -Napoleon Bonaparte
"The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea."
Quote by -Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?"
Quote by -Alexander The Great
"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."
Quote by -Vauvenargues Marquis
"Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world."
Quote by -Euripides
"Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield itself upon honest and lawful terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind."
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"In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention."
Quote by -Simone Weil
"Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts."
Quote by -Thomas Paine
"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary"
Quote by -Thomas Paine
"Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it."
Quote by -Brian Tracy
"Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own."
Quote by -George Bernard Shaw
"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it"
Quote by -George Bernard Shaw
"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."
Quote by -George Bernard Shaw
"Virtue is the sign of the educated person. This is what makes education worthwhile."
Quote by -Sathya Baba
"You can find the footprints of God wherever there is beauty, virtue, humility, justice, truth, love and peace."
Quote by -Sathya Baba
"To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect."
Quote by -Lao Tzu
"When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder."
Quote by -Lao Tzu
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Quote by -Jean-Jacques Rousseau