Top virtue Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of virtue quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of J. Maarten Troost
Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.
- J. Maarten Troost
Collection: Virtue
Image of Billy Bragg
A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.
- Billy Bragg
Collection: Virtue
Image of Benjamin Netanyahu
The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible.
- Benjamin Netanyahu
Collection: Virtue
Image of Boethius
One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
- Boethius
Collection: Virtue
Image of Iain Pears
Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.
- Iain Pears
Collection: Virtue
Image of Baroness Orczy
Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.
- Baroness Orczy
Collection: Virtue
Image of Ward Churchill
Guess what? By virtue of being American, you are not innocent.
- Ward Churchill
Collection: Virtue
Image of Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.
- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
Collection: Virtue
Image of Archibald Alexander
Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.
- Archibald Alexander
Collection: Virtue
Image of Joseph Butler
Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.
- Joseph Butler
Collection: Virtue
Image of Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.
- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
Collection: Virtue
Image of Seraphim of Sarov
Whatever you do, do it gently and unhurriedly, because virtue is not a pear to be eaten in one bite.
- Seraphim of Sarov
Collection: Virtue
Image of Edgar Rice Burroughs
The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
Collection: Virtue
Image of Claude Adrien Helvetius
Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.
- Claude Adrien Helvetius
Collection: Virtue
Image of Claude Adrien Helvetius
No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.
- Claude Adrien Helvetius
Collection: Virtue
Image of Martin Buber
A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).
- Martin Buber
Collection: Virtue
Image of Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne
Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
- Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne
Collection: Virtue
Image of Claudius Claudianus
Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing.
- Claudius Claudianus
Collection: Virtue
Image of Pierre Corneille
Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.
- Pierre Corneille
Collection: Virtue
Image of Susan Wiggs
It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked
- Susan Wiggs
Collection: Virtue
Image of Jonathan V. Last
No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.
- Jonathan V. Last
Collection: Virtue
Image of Prudentius
To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living.
- Prudentius
Collection: Virtue
Image of Alan Chadwick
Patience is not a virtue!
- Alan Chadwick
Collection: Virtue
Image of Eliza Haywood
Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.
- Eliza Haywood
Collection: Virtue
Image of Gampopa
From virtue all happy states arise.
- Gampopa
Collection: Virtue
Image of Witold Gombrowicz
Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.
- Witold Gombrowicz
Collection: Virtue
Image of Graham Greene
There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost
- Graham Greene
Collection: Virtue
Image of William Gifford
Virtue alone is true nobility.
- William Gifford
Collection: Virtue
Image of C. A. Bartol
Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.
- C. A. Bartol
Collection: Virtue
Image of Joseph Rago
There is no inherent virtue to instantaneity.
- Joseph Rago
Collection: Virtue
Image of Chelsea Handler
It’s true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choose not to pursue.
- Chelsea Handler
Collection: Virtue
Image of Ted Malloch
We prepare for success by acquiring virtues.
- Ted Malloch
Collection: Virtue
Image of Washington Irving
Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.
- Washington Irving
Collection: Virtue
Image of Don Marquis
When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
- Don Marquis
Collection: Virtue
Image of Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
A truthmaker is an entity in virtue of which the proposition it makes true is true. And it is a necessary condition of being a truthmaker (though not a sufficient one) that a truthmaker necessitates the proposition it makes true.
- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
Collection: Virtue
Image of Peter Marino
I like my clients. All of my clients say, "Peter. You're talented. But, your best virtue is your discretion." They really don't want to be talked about.
- Peter Marino
Collection: Virtue
Image of Bernard Meltzer
One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected.
- Bernard Meltzer
Collection: Virtue
Image of Aesop
It is easy to kick a person when he is down.
- Aesop
Collection: Virtue
Image of Petrarch
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
- Petrarch
Collection: Virtue
Image of Richard Steele
Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.
- Richard Steele
Collection: Virtue
Image of Laozi
Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason.
- Laozi
Collection: Virtue
Image of Henry Ward Beecher
We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Collection: Virtue
Image of Ayn Rand
Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.
- Ayn Rand
Collection: Virtue
Image of Friedrich Schiller
Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.
- Friedrich Schiller
Collection: Virtue
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Virtue
Image of Jeremy Taylor
For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens.
- Jeremy Taylor
Collection: Virtue
Image of Gary Zukav
As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them in yourself also.
- Gary Zukav
Collection: Virtue
Image of John Milton
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
- John Milton
Collection: Virtue
Image of John Milton
Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.
- John Milton
Collection: Virtue
Image of Pope John Paul II
Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
- Pope John Paul II
Collection: Virtue