Quotes about Virtue

81 quotes about Virtue

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Quote by Paul Gauguin about virtue

Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and...

Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it..

Quote by Aristotel about virtue

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage

Quote by Maya Angelou about virtue

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like...

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Quote by Dante Alighieri about virtue

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.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about virtue

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Quote by William Shakespeare about virtue

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive...

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about virtue

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to...

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

Quote by Francis Bacon about virtue

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about virtue

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Quote by Francis Bacon about virtue

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Quote by Francis Bacon about virtue

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

Quote by John Adams about virtue

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

Quote by Sfanta Tereza De Avila about virtue

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes...

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Quote by Joseph Addison about virtue

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

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

Quote by Joseph Addison about virtue

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about virtue

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Quote by Aristotel about virtue

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about virtue

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue;...

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

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about virtue

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most...

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Quote by Aristotel about virtue

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