Virtue Quotes - page 3

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. (Edmund Burke)
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. View quote
Edmund Burke
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. View quote
Maya Angelou
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world. View quote
Joseph Addison
If Virtue & Knowledge are diffus'd among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great Security. View quote
Samuel Adams
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. View quote
George Washington
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. View quote
Edith Wharton
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. View quote
Imre Lakatos
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. (Oscar Wilde)
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. View quote
George Orwell
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge. View quote
F. H. Bradley
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
Because Impudence is a Vice, it does not follow that Modesty is a Virtue; it is built upon Shame, a Passion in our Nature, and may be either Good or Bad according to the Actions perform'd from that Motive. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion. View quote
Jonathan Swift
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. View quote
William Blake
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit. View quote
Anatole France
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. View quote
Anatole France
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey. (Denis Diderot)
Virtue alone has majesty in death. View quote
Edward Young
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. View quote
William Shakespeare
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