| "The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete." »Confucius |
| "Is virtue a thing remote I wish to be virtuous, and lo virtue is at hand." »Confucius |
| "virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell." »G. K. Chesterton |
| "Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine." »Ruth Fulton Benedict |
| "The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it." »Confucius |
| "Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." »Francis Bacon |
| "I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person." »Socrates |
| "virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue." »Socrates |
| "Property left to a child may soon be lost but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last." »William Graham Sumner |
| "virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue." »Confucius |
| "Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it." »David Starr Jordan |
| "virtue is indeed its own reward." »Claudianus |
| "Assume a virtue, if you have it not." »William Shakespeare |
| "Bluntness is a virtue." »Allison Ling |
| "Blushing is the color of virtue." »Laertius Diogenes |
| "And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm." »John Dryden |
| "Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue." »John Herschel |
| "Silence is the virtue of fools." »Francis Bacon |
| "virtue herself is her own fairest reward." »Silius Italicus |
| "Punctuality is the virtue of the bored." »Evelyn Waugh |
| "Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue." »Don Marquis |
| "If virtue precede us every step will be safe." »Seneca |
| "Money is the barometer of a society's virtue." »Ayn Rand |
| "Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue." »John Kenneth Galbraith |
| "Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall." »William Shakespeare |
| "All virtue is summed up in dealing justly." »Aristotle |
| "He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "virtue lies in the middle ground." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| "Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence." »Frank Zappa |
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