Virtue Quotes - Page 54

When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good.

Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head.

Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.

What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.

He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.

The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.

Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.

Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee.

Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. But liberty, you see, that precious child of our liberal democracy only two hundred years old, has one notable side effect. When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

I could live a better life if I had a better mind and a better body

In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.

Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.

As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically fulfilled.

Patience is a virtue, and Americans have it in short supply.

What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.

It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.

Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.

Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.

Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.

UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.