1,046 Quotes About Virtue

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem

To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living.

Virtue is not hereditary.

Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura sumit, tamen perficienda doctrina est.]

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.

Lonnie is, by virtue of what we do and what he does, our adversary. But he does it in a professional way. I'll say that.