Virtue Quotes

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. View quote
Confucius
The Master said, "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." View quote
Confucius
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world. View quote
Euripides
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. View quote
Confucius
Silence is the virtue of fools. View quote
Francis Bacon
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. View quote
Winston Churchill
Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents... View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous. (Jawaharlal Nehru)
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. View quote
Petrarch
Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another. View quote
Joseph Addison
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. View quote
Barry Goldwater
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. View quote
Francis Bacon
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. View quote
Joseph Addison
Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder. View quote
George Washington
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. (Oscar Wilde)
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. View quote
Victor Hugo
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. View quote
Izaak Walton
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. View quote
Plutarch
Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it. View quote
David Starr Jordan