Virtue Quotes - Page 16

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.

Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.

If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.

Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.

There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.

People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking.

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Obedience is a virtue of so excellent a nature, that Our Lord was pleased to mark its observance upon the whole course of His life; thus He often says, He did not come to do His Own will, but that of His Heavenly Father.

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

Let us go home and cultivate our virtues.

It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.

Every vice has its excuse ready.

He who dies for virtue does not perish.

To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

For virtue only finds eternal Fame.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.