Virtue Quotes

You decide to give up alcohol, because all of a sudden you began to think that it is not too much of a virtuous habit. You soon get called to a party and once at the party you realize that the alcohol is flowing like it’s the last day on earth for the people at the party. You soon give into temptation and before you know it are drunk! This only goes to show how easy it can be to lose out on virtues and morals. Take the time to read on to find famous quotations and sayings on moral quality.

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
Life Ability Army Possible
Thomas Paine

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In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
Meaningful Nature Benefit Results
Thomas Hobbes

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
Good Efficiency Effort Happiness
Saint Thomas Aquinas

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I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
Attitude Sincerity Encouragement Truth
Malcolm X

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Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.
Energy
Dick Cheney

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Courage
C. S. Lewis

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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Forgiveness
Indira Gandhi

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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
Prison Happiness
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
Nature
Laurence Sterne

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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
Opinion Peace Compassion Silence
Malcolm X

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Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
Meaningful Initial Stage Character Principles
Thomas Moore

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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
Support
Voltaire

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There is no road or ready way to virtue.
Advice Sacrifice Integrity
Sir Thomas Browne

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Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
Good Religion Sermon Principles
Thomas Paine

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However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also to acquire humanness. Without humanness, scholarship and intellectual eminence are of no value.
Reputation Value Humanity Intelligence
Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
Tolerance
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it.
Affection Thought
Robert Burns

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

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Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
Patience Tough Learning
Elon Musk

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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Conscience
Adam Smith

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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Beauty
Victor Hugo

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It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
Unity
Benito Mussolini

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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Humbleness Soul
Saint Augustine

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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Capitalism Socialism Sharing
Winston Churchill

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Who sows virtue reaps honor.
Honor
Leonardo da Vinci

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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
Nothing Soul
Honoré de Balzac

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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Good Incorruptibility
Anatole France

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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Mae West

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Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
Success Persistence Success
Ambrose Bierce

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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Nothing Words Language
Hippocrates

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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
Quentin Crisp

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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
Curiosity
Anatole France

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Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
Money Ability Value
Karl Marx

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God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
God
Isaac Newton

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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Patriotism
Oscar Wilde

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Greatness Wives Children
Francis Bacon

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If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
Good Value
Chanakya

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Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Liberality Humanity
Adam Smith

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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Power
George Washington

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Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
Money Society
Ayn Rand

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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
Crime Wars Peace
Victor Hugo

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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Joseph Addison

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The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.
Family Privacy
Tiger Woods

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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Happiness
Joseph Addison

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The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Courage Perseverance
Napoleon Bonaparte

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The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
Strength
Blaise Pascal

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There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
Feelings Hatred
Erich Fromm

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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
Anatole France

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Virtue is the truest nobility.
Miguel de Cervantes

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Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
Happiness
William S. Burroughs

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
Love
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Age Energy
Voltaire

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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
World
Miguel de Cervantes

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Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
Good
Gautama Buddha

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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Women
Edgar Watson Howe

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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Fall
William Shakespeare

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The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Confucius

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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
Light
Saint Augustine

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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
History
Napoleon Bonaparte

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Music Soul Education
Plato

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To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
Lao Tzu

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

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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
Earth Gold
Plato

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Mind
Voltaire

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The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.
Space Seasons
Confucius

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In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
Insincerity
Lord Byron

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Cheapness is a great virtue.
Greatness
Bill Bryson

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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
Michel de Montaigne

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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Wisdom Justice Restraint
Aristotle

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Character
Aristotle

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In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.
Girl Hollywood
Marilyn Monroe

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