Top Virtue Quotes

He who aspires to divine realities willingly allows providence to lead him by principle of wisdom toward the grace of deification. He who does not so aspire is drawn, by the just judgement of God and...

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

Virtue Definition

(n.) Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.

(n.) Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency; efficacy; as, the virtue of a medicine.

(n.) Energy or influence operating without contact of the material or sensible substance.

(n.) Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.

(n.) Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character; purity of soul; performance of duty.

(n.) A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of temperance, of charity, etc.

(n.) Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of women; virginity.

(n.) One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.

Our highest deeds come from helping the lowest people.

Love your friends with your eyes closed, but love your enemies with both eyes open.

Shine your light so bright, and no one will need a telescope to see you.

A kind stranger is better than an uncaring friend.

Now that the wars are coming to an end, I wish you to prosper in peace. May all mortals from now on live like one people in concord and for mutual advancement. Consider the world as your country, with...

Believe be and strong enough in virtues like character, faithfulness, hard work, dignity of labor, diligence, excellence, perseverance, truth, responsibility, delayed gratification, contentment, trust...

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn't share her body with any of them.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no substitute can do your thinking—that the vilest form of self-abaseme...

Wealth is not what you have for yourself. Wealth is what you share with others.

To achieve peace let go of: guilt, anger, and bitterness. To achieve happiness embrace: virtue, faith, and love.

There is no gem like virtue, no wealth like happiness, no treasure like faith, and no jewel like love.

Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do not apply what they know. To break the culture, look for more information; learn more and apply more....

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

We often find that People who claim virtue are the ones to lack it the most.

I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we live in a Pearl White serial of continuing thought and wonder. Humans are caught - in thei...

Be like the sun; bear with those in the dark, but keep shining your light.