Top 1200 Virtue Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Personal virtue is no substitute for political hard-headedness.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity.

There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.

What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger!" the man in black laughed.

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.

HOBBES: Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.

Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.

It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.

Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

A slight failing in one virtue is enough to put all the others to sleep.

Homeliness is the best guard of a young girl's virtue.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

The greatest virtue is not in forgiving those who apologize, or in being kind to those who are kind to you. The biggest virtue is in forgiving even those who never apologize, and in being kind to even those who are not kind to you.

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

Virtue's guard is labor; ease, her sleep.

Kindness is more than a virtue. It is a source of strength.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.

Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.

Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.

There is regressivity built into the tax code by virtue of its complexity.

The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.

I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio - empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how - has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home - within the family, so to speak - our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Satan often paints sin with virtue's colors.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.

Illumination by the Spirit is the endless end of every virtue.

Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.

. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . .

Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.