Virtue Quotes - Page 9

• Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

  Indira Gandhi

  Forgiveness, History, Bravery

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• Blushing is the color of virtue.

  Diogenes

  Love, Life, Dream

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• The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

  William Cowper

  Titles, Fame, Good Health

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1854). “The Works: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and Translations : in Eight Volumes. ¬The poetical works, Vol. 1”, p.119

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• It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Government, People, Liberty

  Richard Henry Lee (1825). “Memoir of the Life of Richard H. Lee, and His Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe”, p.70

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• Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.

  George Washington

  Doe, Noble, Rewards

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1784). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.1

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• Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains,
  'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains:
  And grant the bad what happiness they would,
  One they must want--which is, to pass for good.

  Alexander Pope

  Vices, Want, Advantage

  Alexander Pope, Daniel Clark (1824). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.51

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• Virtue may choose the high or low degree,
  'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me;
  Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king,
  She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.

  Alexander Pope

  Kings, Light, Degrees

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1866). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. ...”, p.108

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• O let us still the secret joy partake,
  To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.

  Alexander Pope

  Joy, Secret, Sake

  Alexander Pope (1856). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.131

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• Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.

  John Milton

  Break Through, Shining, Temptation

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, John Banks, Michael Arne, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Caractacus”

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• God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

  John Milton

  Growth, Vicious, Virtuous

  John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.177

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• Virtue alone is sweet society,
  It keeps the key to all heroic hearts,
  And opens you a welcome in them all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Heart, Keys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Powerful Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.309, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We hate virtue when it is safe; when removed from our sight we diligently seek it.
  [Lat., Virtutem incolumem odimus,
  Sublatum ex oculis quaerimus.]

  Horace

  Hate, Sight, Safe

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• Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

  Edmund Burke

  Long, People, Political

  'Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol' (1777) p. 71

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Short Life, Men, Hair

  Letter to John Adams, 28 Oct. 1813

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• If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Delight, Cry

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.497

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• But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Champion, Trying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.134, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.

  Confucius

  Women, Men

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• You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Mistake, Looks, Faults

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting”, p.232, e-artnow

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• [T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

  George Washington

  Liberty, Unions, Civic Duty

  George Washington (1871). “Words of Washington”, p.141

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• The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.

  Rollo May

  Inspiration, Heart, Blood

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Virtue is its own revenge.

  Yip Harburg

  Revenge, Integrity, Drinking

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• The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Fire, Weak

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.496, Courier Corporation

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• Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Peculiar, Earth

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.182, Penguin

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• That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Hands, Perfect

  "Of Personal Merit". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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