Virtue Quotes - Page 7

The Gods rank work above virtues.

Analyze thy life's experiences, see thy shortcomings, see thy virtues. Minimize those faults, magnify and glorify thy virtues.

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.

When the men of antiquity realized their wishes, benefits were conferred by them on the people. If they did not realize their wishes, they cultivated their personal character, and became illustrious in the world. If poor, they attended to their own virtue in solitude; if advanced to dignity, they made the whole empire virtuous as well.

In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.

Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.

Happiness and Prosperity are now within our Reach; but to attain and preserve them must depend upon our own Wisdom and Virtue.

Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done.

Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.

Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.

Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.

The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.

Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.

Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.

Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.

I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

From virtue all happy states arise.