Virtue Quotes

Maya angelou

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

Rousseau

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. 

Marcus Aurelius

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

John Dryden

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.

Denis Diderot

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Virtue does not come from wealth, but… wealth, and every other good thing which men have… comes from virtue.

Socrates

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

Sidney Lanier

What's given shines,
What's receiv'd is rusty.

Benjamin Franklin

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

Confucius

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”.

Sydney J. Harris

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

Christopher Marlowe

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.

Ovid

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

Thomas Carlyle

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

Charles Spurgeon

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.

Horace

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

Francis Bacon

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...

Charlie Chaplin

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

Horace

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.

Diogenes

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Martin Tupper

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

Henry Ward Beecher

Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Aristotle

Build up virtue, and you master all.

Lao Tzu

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.

Epictetus

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

Benjamin Franklin

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