Virtue Quotes

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

~ George Washington

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

~ William Bennett

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

~ Dante Alighieri

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Integrity is a very important and an almost indispensable virtue that all leaders must possess. This is especially true in the Philippine context because we Filipinos really respond to leadership by example.

~ Grace Poe

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

~ C. S. Lewis

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

~ Alfred North Whitehead

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

~ William Slim

I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

~ Sally Phillips

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

~ Herman Melville

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

~ Oscar Wilde

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

~ Henry Iv Of England

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

~ William Ames

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

~ Michele Bachmann

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

~ Indira Gandhi

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

~ Victor Hugo

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

~ Thomas Carlyle

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

~ Petrarch

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

~ Henry Kissinger

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.

~ George William Russell

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

~ Ezra Pound

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

~ Mencius

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

~ Emil Ludwig

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

~ Edmund Burke

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

~ Confucius

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

~ John Jay Chapman

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.

~ Karl Marx

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

~ Ayn Rand

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

~ Marcus Aurelius

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

~ Phillip E. Johnson

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

~ Aristotle

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

~ William Hazlitt

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

~ James Buchan

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

~ Leo Strauss

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

~ William Shakespeare

Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.

~ Kirk Douglas

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

~ Aristotle

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

~ Edward Everett