Virtue Quotes

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.

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.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

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

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Birth and wealth together have prevailed over virtue and talent in all ages.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

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.

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.

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

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

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

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

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

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.