Virtue Quotes

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Aristotle

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

David Starr Jordan

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

Confucius

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

Horace Mann

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

George Washington

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

C.S. Lewis

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Virtue has never been as respectable as money

Mark Twain

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

Confucius

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Anatole France

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Oscar Wilde

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

G. K. Chesterton

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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.

Maya Angelou

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

G. K. Chesterton