Virtue Quotes - Page 15

I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them.

Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in us whereby our inner being is progressively changed, freeing us more and more from sinful traits and developing within us over time the virtues of Christlike character.

In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.

To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.

Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

Virtue is to herself the best reward.

In the winter, warmth stands for all virtue.

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old.

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.

Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

Gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.

Without courage, all other virtues are useless.

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.

Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing.

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

Virtue is safe only when it is inspired.

He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.