VIRTUE QUOTES IV

quotations about virtue

The soul that companies with Virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught; sweet, rich, and generous of its store; that injures not, neither destroys.

EPICTETUS

Fragments

Tags: Epictetus


While bars and bolts may baffle the thief, virtue alone will defeat the slanderer.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs


They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

Tags: Norman MacDonald


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


However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims


In the non-internet world where behavior is observable and people are accountable, virtue is easy to spot.

DAVE HUNTOON

"Divided", The Moderate Voice, April 23, 2017


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


Both excess and defect are alike prejudicial to moral virtue.

ARISTOTLE

Nicomachean Ethics

Tags: Aristotle


Virtue makes us appear amiable to others; vice, contemptible even to ourselves.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


Virtue, like beauty, is commonly only skin deep.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


No virtuous act can be fully virtuous unless it is freely chosen by the person acting.

JAMES STONER

"The Harmony and Balance of Virtue and Liberty", Learn Liberty, April 24, 2017


Overt and apparent virtues, bring forth praise; but there be secret and hidden virtues, that bring forth fortune; certain deliveries of a man's self, which have no name.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Fortune", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Tags: Francis Bacon


To Virtue's humblest son let none prefer
Vice, tho' descended from the Conqueror.

EDWARD YOUNG

Love of Fame: The Universal Passion in Seven Characteristical Satires

Tags: Edward Young


The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.

AESOP

"The Thieves and the Cock", Aesop's Fables

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

FRANCIS BACON

Essays


Virtue alone has majesty in death.

EDWARD YOUNG

Night Thoughts

Tags: Edward Young


It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.

CONFUCIUS

The Doctrine of the Mean

Tags: Confucius


I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

The Night of the Iguana

Tags: Tennessee Williams


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

Tags: Ethan Allen