Virtue Quotes - Page 2

Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?

Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.

Justice is happiness according to virtue.

My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

Humility, which is a virtue, is always fruitful in good works.

Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.

A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.

Vice is its own reward.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness.

Purpose without virtue is vanity.

There is no virtue higher than non-injury.

Humility is the virtue that requires the greatest amount of effort.

Patience is a conquering virtue.

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices.

Virtue is not photogenic.

I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell.

The good life for man is the life spent in seeking for the good life for man, and the virtues necessary for the seeking are those which will enable us to understand what more and what else the good life for man is.

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not, as Kant was later to think, to act against inclination; it is to act from inclination formed by the cultivation of the virtues.