Quotes on Virtue

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue,_x000D_ small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class_x000D_ thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.

Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

There is no virtue higher than non-injury.

Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues

Integrity is praised, and starves.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives in the earth and the wind. The imagined tree imperceptibly becomes a cosmological tree, the tree which epitomises a universe, which makes a universe.

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

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

The highest virtue is always against the law.

Mercy can purge the soul of sin, making room for a fresh start. Truth is vital in order that we have an unvarying standard by which to determine what we are to be and to do and what we are to rid ourselves of. All the cardinal virtues, therefore, carry their own intrinsic as well as outward reward. A merciful man does do good to his own soul.

Twenty-four hours a day one looks for contentment in eight different directions but one must also explore the ninth place, which is to their own body and contemplate within. Within the body are the nine treasures of the Name of the Lord—seek the depths of these virtues. Those blessed with the karma of good actions praise the Lord and become true devotees

We are not very pleased when we are forced to accept a mathematical truth by virtue of a complicated chain of formal conclusions and computations, which we traverse blindly, link by link, feeling our way by touch. We want first an overview of the aim and of the road; we want to understand the idea of the proof, the deeper context.