Virtue Quotes

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Samuel Butler

You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?

Thomas Kempis

Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water.

William Shakespeare

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

William Ellery Channing

Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness of human habitations are what human nature habitually abhors; while on the contrary, haze, mist, and the haunting spirits of the mountains are what human nature seeks, and yet can rarely find.

Kuo His

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Aristotle

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

G. K. Chesterton

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

G. K. Chesterton

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

William Shakespeare

The only reward of virtue is virtue

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude

Aristotle

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

Benjamin Franklin

Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

Michel de Montaigne

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

Michel de Montaigne

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Michel de Montaigne

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

Michel de Montaigne

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Michel de Montaigne

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

LaoTzu

The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.

Lady Constance Lytton

Chastity - you can carry it too far

Mark Twain