VIRTUE QUOTES V

quotations about virtue

There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain. It is subject to no disappointments, since he that perseveres, makes every difficulty an advancement, and every contest a victory; and this is the pursuit of virtue.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

JOHN STEINBECK

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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It matters not from what stock we are descended so long as we have virtue; for that alone is true Nobility.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine


Virtue is also power. As we faithfully live the gospel, we will have power to be virtuous in every thought, feeling and action. Our minds become more receptive to the promptings of the Holy Ghost and the Light of Christ. We embody Christ not only in what we say and do, but in who we are.

ROBERT D. HALES

"Becoming a Disciple of Our Lord Jesus Christ", Deseret News, April 1, 2016


It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

REBECCA WEST

The Harsh Voice

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Virtue never has been as respectable as money.

MARK TWAIN

Innocents Abroad

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If one doth act in friendly wise,
With no evil thought toward any single creature,
And in so doing becometh proper,
And if he have compassion in his soul
Toward all living beings--this noble one
Doth acquire abundant Virtue.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Iti-Vuttaka


Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain in respect to ourselves, to our fellow men, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

JAMES WADDEL ALEXANDER

attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers

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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.

MADAME SWETCHINE

"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine

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The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The Vicar of Wakefield

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Virtue is the effort, the conquest of a difficulty, leaving, as its results, a balance of happiness. There may be, there is much good in the world, which no virtue has been concerned in producing. But there is no virtue where there is no balance of happiness.

JEREMY BENTHAM

Deontology; or, The Science of Morality

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A man that hath no virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in others.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays


Wealth is useless on the day of wrath, but virtue saves from death.

BIBLE

Proverbs 11:4

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To be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations. If thou hast not conquer'd thyself in that which is thy own particular weakness, thou hast no title to virtue, tho' thou art free of other men's.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude

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Virtue and vice are the only things in this world, which, with our souls, are capable of surviving death; the former is the rational and only procuring cause of all intellectual happiness, and the latter of conscious guilt and misery; and therefore, our indispensable duty and ultimate interest is, to love, cultivate and improve the one, as the means of our greatest good, and to hate and abstain from the other, as productive of our greatest evil.

ETHAN ALLEN

Reason: The Only Oracle of Man

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Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt,
Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

JOHN MILTON

Comus

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There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


As the flower, when plucked for enjoyment, begins to wither, so does virtue practiced for reward begin to vanish.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice, should go a little farther and try to plant a virtue in its place, otherwise he will have his labour to renew; a strong soil that has produced weeds, may be made to produce wheat, with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


God hath not called us that we should be unclean, but holy and virtuous.

THOMAS BECON

Writings of the Rev. Thomas Becon

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