Virtue Quotes - page 5

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. (Ambrose Bierce)
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
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. View quote
Maya Angelou
Character is the virtue of hard times. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country. View quote
Joseph Addison
The highest point a man can obtain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe! View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love. View quote
George Santayana
Compassion is not a popular virtue. View quote
Karen Armstrong
Good government is the outcome of private virtue. View quote
John Jay Chapman
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around. (Mary McCarthy)
Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not Governments. When governments are generous it is with other people's money, other people's safety, other people's future. View quote
P. D. James
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
There is no road or ready way to virtue. View quote
Thomas Browne
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. View quote
Barry Goldwater
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ of the first upgrowth of all virtue. View quote
Charles Kingsley
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, and justice. (Baruch Spinoza)
How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue. View quote
Jane Austen
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. View quote
David Hume
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. View quote
Francis Bacon
It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black. View quote
Will Smith