Virtue Quotes - Page 46

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.

Personal virtue is no substitute for political hard-headedness.

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.

Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning -- without altogether recognizing it beneath the disguise of ambiguous behavior which it assumes in his presence.

It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.

A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.

Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.

The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave.

That which is inherent in man is his virtue.

We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.

One seldom loves people for their virtues.

There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.

When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.