Virtue Quotes

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of thesinful.

~ Paul Bourget

Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue.

~ Bertrand Russell

The practice of that which is ethically best—what we call goodness or virtue—involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence. In place of ruthless self-assertion it demands self-restraint; in place of thrusting aside, or treading down, all competitors, it requires that the individual shall not merely respect, but shall help his fellows... It repudiates the gladiatorial theory of existence... Laws and moral precepts are directed to the end of curbing the cosmic process.

~ Thomas Henry Huxley

One very beautiful virtue one can master is to learn to ignore; to ignore perceived and intended slights no matter how infuriating they might feel. Not to ignore in anger, rather, to ignore with understanding. However, to keep account for future purposes, to ignore with adept skill and less hurt. Life just becomes easier and more beautiful.

~ Ufuoma Apoki

Humility is the only soil in which the graces root; the lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and failure. Humility is not so much a grace or virtue along with others; it is the root of all, because it alone takes the right attitude before God, and allows Him as God to do all.

~ Andrew Murray

Humility is the most undervalued godly virtue.

~ Emily R. King

Humility makes me cry! There isn't a bigger asset than it.

~ Nikita Dudani

Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.

~ Thomas Merton

True humility is a kind of self-annihilation, and this is the centre of all virtues.

~ John Wesley

Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.

~ Vanna Bonta

Amongst all the virtues, high awareness is the most precious one!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

He who on earth has lived in the conjugal state as he should live, will be placed among the Gods who dwell in heaven

~ Thiruvalluvar

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

~ Philippa Gregory

They had been brought up to think that the domestic virtues were self-evident and universal, they had been starved of the knowledge that most attracts the young mind: that the crown of life is the exercise of choice

~ Thornton Wilder

The immoral can no more earn respectThan the envious be rich.

~ Thiruvalluvar

Oh! my friend, never seek to corrupt the person whom you love, it can go further than you think...

~ Marquis De Sade

It is only in virtue that you can discover, that you can live - not in the cultivation of a virtue, which merely brings about respectability, not understanding and freedom.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling.

~ Jane Austen

Many pride themselves, staking claim to the noble virtue that is loyalty. However, many resolve to give their allegiance to nothing. How can one demand loyalty, if one stands by nothing, nor commits to the realization of an ideal?

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. -Oct 1986

~ Neal A Maxwell

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

~ Charles Williams

Take delight on a woman’s pubic hair for its a signature of maturity and a secretive covenant . . . the hair signifies potent sexual energy and strength hold but also signifies virility of the animalistic tendencies and royal power . . . A woman who rejects narcissism of complete vaginal hair removal gives a signature of strength, virtuously liberated, body acceptance, and more womanhood.

~ John Shelton Jones

Integrity is an eternal virtue we should focus our mind on and not.

~ Sunday Adelaja

People love super heroes.  It's true we're  impressed by their bravery and fortitude, their supernatural gifts and physical brawn.  But the fact is, villains possess these same qualities.  So why our admiration for the hero and not the nemesis?  Because of virtue.   A super hero gives everything to defend what's good and right without seeking praise or reward.  Think about it.  All the great heroes give without taking, help without grumbling, sacrifice without asking recompense.  A super hero's real strength, what we absolutely fall in love with, is his finer virtue.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Who would want to enter the soiled Temple of Justice, wherein lies the corpse of justice, slain by her very guardians? And now her killers make mock of the sacred process, selling replicas of her blind virtue to the highest bidder.

~ Rohinton Mistry

Wisdom or accident, at length, recall us from our error, and offers to us some object capable of producing a pleasing, yet lasting effect, which effect, therefore, we call happiness. Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be expected to produce uniformity of effect.

~ Ann Radcliffe

A truly honorable person, would never convince another to stray, from their personal pursuit of honor. No, only one lacking this noble quality would try to justify and market, an existence without it.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

A man goes to a foreign country and kills somebody who's not aggressing against him; in a Hawaiian shirt he's a criminal, in a green costume he's a hero who gets a parade and a pension. So that, as a culture, we remain in a state of moral insanity. To point out these contradictions to people in society is to be labeled insane. This is how insane society remains, that anybody who points out logical opposites in the most essential human topic of ethics, is considered to be insane.

~ Stefan Molyneux

The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order. The robber, on the other hand, is intent, not on honest toil, but on the forcible appropriation of the fruits of others' labor.

~ Ludwig Von Mises

In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jiggling at his belly, slow of foot but always plodding along, always there when you needed him, a believer in the virtues of simplicity and directness and hard labor.

~ Tim O'brien

Of what avail are my loftiest thoughts if I have ceased to exist?” there are some will ask; to whom others, it may be, will answer, “What becomes of myself if all that I love in my heart and my spirit must die, that my life may be saved?” And are not almost all the morals, and heroism, and virtue of man summed up in that single choice?

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

Now that the wars are coming to an end, I wish you to prosper in peace. May all mortals from now on live like one people in concord and for mutual advancement. Consider the world as your country, with laws common to all and where the best will govern irrespective of tribe. I do not distinguish among men, as the narrow-minded do, both among Greeks and Barbarians. I am not interested in the descendance of the citizens or their racial origins. I classify them using one criterion: their virtue. For me every virtuous foreigner is a Greek and every evil Greek worse than a Barbarian. If differences ever develop between you never have recourse to arms, but solve them peacefully. If necessary, I should be your arbitrator.

~ Alexander The Great

Arcadio had seen her many times working in her parents' small food store but he had never taken a good look at her because she had that rare virtue of never existing completely except at the opportune moment.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

~ Vera Nazarian

Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process

~ Elif Shafak

I may have mentioned patience wasn't one of my virtues. Actually, I didn't have many virtues but patience definitely wasn't one of them.

~ Kristen Ashley

The cruel man is of misanthropic temperament, and is a man of moods, oscillating from quiet brooding to sudden explosions. If a man like this does not fight this unhappy provision of his soul during his youth, under no circumstances could he a void becoming furious - and foolish. There are those who would leave it up to God, but to ensure justice on the earth, and not fob it off to the Divinity, it is mandatory that people know both virtue and its benefits, since the virtues lead to unity among them, not the war of all against all. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to conserve them, and show that crime can only return misfortunes and destruction, including of the criminal himself. Who is the last victim of his crimes.

~ Frederick The Great

An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size.

~ Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

A gentleman is not a pot.

~ Confucius

Changing prejudice often inverts the value of words while preserving most of their sense; virtues are turned into vices, artistic qualities become defects.

~ John Shearman