Explore Quotes on Virtue

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

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.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

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

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.