Virtue Quotes - Page 10

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

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  66 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can.

  George Washington

  Struggle, Men, Suffering

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.91

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

  Benjamin Rush

  Mean, Men, Savages

  Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters: 1761-1792”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Care, Choosing Happiness

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1708). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus His Conversation with Himself: Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker ; as Also the Emperor's Life”, p.193

  67 Copy quote

  Show source

• Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

  Ben Jonson

  Mind, Crowns, Enough

  The Underwood,'An Ode to Himself' (published 1640).

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

  John Milton

  Chimes, Stoops, Ifs

  1634 Comus, A Mask, l.1017-22.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Speak

  8 Copy quote

• He who dies for virtue does not perish.

  Plautus

  Doe, Dies

  Titus Maccius Plautus (1893). “Comedies of T. Maccius Plautus: (Amphitruo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi)”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Law, Public Opinion

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.475

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.

  James Russell Lowell

  Path, Ends, Graves

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.756, Delphi Classics

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Virtue is insufficient temptation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Temptation, Insufficient

  7 Copy quote

• But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.

  Edmund Waller

  Blood, Vices, Flesh

  Edmund Waller, John Denham (sir.) (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and sir John Denham, with mem. and critical dissertation by G. Gilfillan”, p.98

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Long

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1848). “The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.544

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.

  Philip Massinger

  Greatness, Challenges, Vices

  Philip Massinger (1761). “Dramatic works”, p.261

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Taken, Names, Consistency

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1871). “Three Books of Offices ; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.273

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in vain to look for public virtue; it is, therefore, the duty of legislators to enforce, both by precept and example, the utility, as well as the necessity, of a strict adherence to the rules of distributive justice.

  James Madison

  Justice, Voting, Foundation

  45 Copy quote

• Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Years, People, Needs

  Letter to the Abbés Chalut and Arnaud, April 17, 1787.

  71 Copy quote

  Show source

• Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Spring, Keys, Honour

  'Tamburlaine the Great' (1590) pt. 1, act 4, sc. 4

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part of mankind.

  George Washington

  Integrity, Accomplishment, Gains

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.308

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents. It cannot be created by having extraordinary advantages. It isn't a gift of birth, wealth, talent or station. It is the result of your own endeavor. It is the reward that comes from living good principles and manifesting a virtuous and honorable life.

  L. Tom Perry

  Good Life, Integrity, Character

  28 Copy quote

• Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Life, Character

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.98, Penguin

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Freedom, Character, People

  Benjamin Franklin (1840). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.297

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Happiness is the object and design of our existence.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Happiness, Design, Joy

  6 Copy quote

• A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake.

  Confucius

  Leadership, Motivation, Mistake

  Confucius, Qian Sima (1938). “The wisdom of Confucius”, Modern Library

  34 Copy quote

  Show source

• Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

  George Washington

  Religious, Truth, Freedom

  26 Copy quote