Virtue Quotes
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. I am not afraid.
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
Virtue is praised, but hated. People run from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you have to keep your feet warm.
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
Virtue does not come from wealth, but… wealth, and every other good thing which men have… comes from virtue.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
What's given shines,
What's receiv'd is rusty.
Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, “I was wrong”.
Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.
No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
We think too much and feel to little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindess and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost...
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Build up virtue, and you master all.
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always and approach toward it.
He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.