Quotes About Virtue

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

Most of us have heard the saying, 'Cleanliness is next to godliness.' That's a sentiment I value, but another virtue has inspired me to revise that saying. As far as I'm concerned, what's next to godliness is resourcefulness.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

Everyone needs resilience. It's a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness.

I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.