Quotes About Virtue

If you're not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you're going to be punished for them, then what's your motivation to continue?

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

It may be very difficult to keep the virtues of purity, passion, and sacrifice of love in real life.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Be patient. Patience is the mother of all virtues.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

Continuity is a great thing; staying the course and being patient, those are important virtues. But also there is virtue in being realistic enough to know you have to make serious changes sometimes.

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.