Best Virtue Quotes

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.

Diversity is not a virtue. Diversity is a good only to the extent that it advances other virtues, justice or inclusiveness of others who have previously been excluded.

It is always one’s virtues and not one’s vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.

Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

a writer’s first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous cost. Paid, so far as I am concerned, joyfully.

It’s no virtue to gain the whole world. Just gain the heart of one person.

Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.

Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.

The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact…. In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the coldest and bleakest places, the warmest charities still maintain a foothold.

the leading error of the human mind, – the bane of human happiness – the perverter of human virtue … is Religion – that dark coinage of trembling ignorance! It is Religion – that poisoner of human felicity! It is Religion – that blind guide of human reason! It is Religion – that dethroner of human virtue! which lies at the root of all the evil and all the misery that pervade the world!

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

There is no sanctuary of virtue like a home.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don’t share ideas.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. For however important chastity (or courage, or truthfulness, or any other virtue) may be, this process trains us in habits of the soul which are more important still. It cures our illusions about ourselves and teaches us to depend on God. We learn, on the one hand, that we cannot trust ourselves even in our best moments, and, on the other, that we need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven.

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. They are the source of all spiritual qualities: forgiveness, tolerance, all the virtues. They give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive. There is nothing amazing about being rich or highly educated; only when the individual has a warm heart do these attributes become worthwhile.

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions … The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.