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Virtue is its own punishment.
– Aneurin Bevan
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
– Sir John Vanbrugh
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
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
– 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
Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.
– Denis Diderot
Virtue lies in the middle ground.
– Dr. Jose P. Rizal
Virtue they will but abuse, and taunt her with bitter revilling.
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Book Eleven
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
– Siddha Nagarjuna
Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well-meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.
– Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re-armament
Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
– Robert Collier
Vision looks inward and becomes duty.Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.Vision looks upward and becomes faith.
– Stephen S. Wise
Vision without a task is only a dream. A task without a vision is but drudgery. But vision with a task is a dream fulfilled.
– Willie Stone
Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.
– Japanese Proverb
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
– Japanese Proverb
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
– Joel Barker
Visit the graveyards sometimes and read the headstone epitaphs! There is much to learn from the dark face of the life!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Visit the port of goodness often; if you can, cast your anchor over there!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure.
– Portuguese Proverb
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
– F Scott
Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
Vladimir That passed the time. Estragon It would have passed in any case. Vladimir Yes, but not so rapidly.
– Samuel Beckett
Vladimir: That passed the time.
Estragon: It would have passed in any case.
Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly.

– Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1955)
Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
– Lavater
Voicing one's virtues is the deadliest of vices
– Ahmed Korayem

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