Quotes about Virtue

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.

Donald Trump is not some great man of virtue, but this much I'll say for him: I think he loves America, and I don't think he wants to line his own pockets.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

Teach your daughters to walk in virtue.

Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.

Donald Trump's rise is certainly a symptom of our fading virtue and faith, but ironically, he may well be our only hope for finding our way back to bolder expressions of them.