Virtue Quotes - Page 6

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.

No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality.

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and I do not see why we should accept the outside world as such solely by virtue of our senses.

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

Virtue lies in the middle ground.

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

Want of punctuality is a want of virtue.

Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.