Virtue Quotes

"Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."

Baruch Spinoza

"Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun; and the two are never far apart."

Charles Caleb Colton

"The love of country is the first virtue in a civilized man."

"Patience is a conquering virtue."

Geoffrey Chaucer

"Patience is the greatest of all virtues."

Cato the Elder

"Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty."

John Ruskin

“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.”

“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”

“Virtue is not given by money, but from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private.”

“The being of all virtues, and chiefly of temperance, depends on the practice of them.”

“The inexperienced in wisdom and virtue, ever occupied with feasting and such, wander their whole life long, neither ever looking upward to the truth above them nor tasting pure and lasting pleasures.”

“We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.”

“A man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.”

“A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.”

“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.”

“Who sows virtue reaps honour.”

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

“Virtue is not always amiable. Integrity is sometimes ruined by prejudices and by passions.”

“Omnium rerum domina, virtus. Virtue is the mistress of all things.”

“Blushing is the colour of virtue.”

“Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.”

“Virtue is a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.”

“Human good turns out to be activity of soul in accordance with virtue.”

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”

"They summed up and perfected, by one supreme act, the highest virtues of men and citizens."

James A. Garfield