Virtue Quotes

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill

Failure, Ignorance, Envy

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Robert Hall

Friend, Opinion, Once

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha

Peace, Happiness, Family

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya Angelou

Courage, Important, Nothing

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Buddha

Life, Good, Wisdom

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein

Far, Silent, Concerned

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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Indira Gandhi

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. Lewis

Courage, Point, Simply

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
Buddha

Good, Loved, Wicked

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill

Blessings, Socialism, Capitalism

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou

Courage, True, Cannot

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius

Life, Happiness, Nature

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

Art, Training, Rather

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas Jefferson

Ambition, Fit, Tools

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius

Kindness, Perfect, Soul

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Thomas Jefferson

Humor, Good, Truth

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
Thomas Jefferson

Men, Natural, Among

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde

Patriotism, Vicious

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
William Shakespeare

Fall, Rise, Sin

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
William Shakespeare

Goodness, Bold, Fearful

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
William Shakespeare

Dangerous, Temptation, Loving

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
William Shakespeare

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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
Plato

Give, Enough, Earth

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato

Music, Education, Soul

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
Lao Tzu

Understand, Realize, Defect

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.
George Washington

Hope, Character, Enough

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
Confucius

Government, May, Place

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
John Adams

Nature, Ignorance, America

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
Confucius

Alone, Stand, Left

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Confucius

Common, Comfort, Thinks

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