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

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

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.

Buddha

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

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Leonardo da Vinci