Virtue Quotes - page 2

Virtue can only flourish among equals. (Mary Wollstonecraft)
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Thomas Paine
Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
George Bernard Shaw
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
Peter Ustinov
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
Molière
By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever.
Laozi
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
Mary Wollstonecraft
It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
José Martí
Consider your breed you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Indira Gandhi
All the perplexities, confusions, 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. (John Adams)
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
James Thurber
Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.
Thomas Paine
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
William Hazlitt
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
William Hazlitt
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
Felix Adler
The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.
Georg Büchner
Virtue is reason which has become energy.
Friedrich Schlegel
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
Edmund Burke
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. (Edmund Burke)
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
John Kenneth Galbraith
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.
Joseph Addison