Quotes about Virtue
Lord, make me chaste - but not yet.
— St. Augustine
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
— Ernest Hemingway
I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.
— Charles Dickens
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most men admire Virtue, who follow not her lore.
— John Milton
Wickedness is weakness.
— John Milton
Other Definitions of Adversity Adversity is the touchstone of virtue.
— Anonymous
Gratitude is the mother of the virtues.
— Cicero
There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.
— John Maxwell
Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor in time of war.
— Thomas Paine
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
— St. Augustine
Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?
— Polycarp