Top 1200 Virtue Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Virtue is the health of the soul.

It is in the nature of water ... to become transformed into earth through a predominating earthy virtue; ... it is in the nature of earth to become transformed into water through a predominating aqueous virtue.

Cowardice is no virtue.

Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave.

Virtue is not hereditary.

Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this.... Her cause was good. Her principles just and liberal. Her temper serene and firm.... The remembrance then of what is past, if it operates rightly must inspire her with the most laudable of an ambition, that of adding to the fair fame she began with. The world has seen her great adversity.... Let then, the world see that she can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to the bravest virtue in time of war.

Virtue is its own punishment.

Impatience is a virtue.

Return animosity with virtue.

Is virtue something that can be taught?

Kindness is virtue itself.

Patience is not a virtue!

Compassion is not a popular virtue

The virtue of books is to be readable.

Birth is nothing where virtue is not

I'm not a virtue signaler.

I'm really tired of virtue.

Virtue is no empty echo.

Blushing is the colour of virtue.

Virtue is not photogenic.

Silent guns have virtue.

Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere. Moreover, human nature can easily deny God because the whole race has long been in rebellion against Him. Yet there is that in human nature which calls out to the supreme examples of virtue: owns, as it were, the intention of God who made it, and feels the unmistakable homesickness of the soul.

Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely god-given of all human things inasmuch as it is the best. But this question would perhaps be more appropriate to another inquiry; happiness seems, however, even if it is not god-sent but comes as a result of virtue and some process of learning and training, to be among the most god-like things; for that which is the prize and end of virtue seems to be the best thing in the world, and something god-like and blessed.

Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained by education with an eye to the constitution, if the virtues of either of them are supposed to make any difference in the virtues of the state. And they must make a difference: for the children grow up to be citizens, and half the free persons in a state are women.

Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

There is no virtue if there is no immortality.

Tenderness is a virtue.

All the devils respect virtue.

Assume a virtue if you have it not.

Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of the people to put aside private interest for public good. The imperatives of virtue attached all sorts of desiderata to the republican citizen: simplicity, frugality, sobriety, simple manners, Christian benevolence, duty to the polity. Republics called on other virtues--spiritedness, courage--to protect the polity from external threats. Tyrants kept standing armies; republics relied on free yeomen, defending their own land.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

What is virtue? Reason in practice.

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

The virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Reward is its own virtue.

Beauty is the flower of virtue.

Leaders lead by virtue of who they are.

Tart, cathartic virtue.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

There is no inherent virtue to instantaneity.

So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions. Those who contribute most to this kind of association are for that very reason entitled to a larger share in the state than those who, though they may be equal or even superior in free birth and in family, are inferior in the virtue that belongs to a citizen. Similarly they are entitled to a larger share than those who are superior in riches but inferior in virtue.

If we keep the path of virtue undefiled through devout and true knowledge, and do not deviate to either side, we will experience the advent of God revealed to us because of our dispassion. For 'I will sing a psalm and in a pure path I will understand when Thou wilt come to me' (cf. Ps. 101:1-2). The psalm stands for virtuous conduct; understanding indicates the spiritual knowledge, gained through virtue, by means of which we perceive God's advent, when we wait for the Lord vigilant in the virtues.

Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little exposed to temptation, or too little acquainted with vice, or anything connected therewith - It must be, either, that you think she is essentially so vicious, or so feeble-minded that she cannot withstand temptation, - and though she may be pure and innocent as long as she is kept in ignorance and restraint, yet, being destitute of real virtue, to teach her how to sin is at once to make her a sinner.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Virtue is the truest liberty.

Obscurity is never a virtue.

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

Patience is a conquering virtue.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

Virtue is its own reward.

Make a virtue of necessity.

Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head virtues to promote it! To all those be-lauded sages of the academic chairs, wisdom was sleep Without dreams: they knew no higher significance of life. Even at present, to be sure, there are some like this preacher of virtue, and not always so honorable: but their time is past. And not much longer do they stand: there they already lie. Blessed are those drowsy ones: for they shall soon nod to sleep.-Thus spoke Zarathustra.

Virtue is harmony.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

There is no virtue in poverty.

Virtue is the truest nobility.