1,046 Quotes About Virtue

Courage is chief among virtues. For when any virtue is challenged, it is courage alone that can restore virtue.

Areté is a word that means excellence in character and life. It is the accumulation of virtue in one's life.

What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all?

It is said a virtuous woman is worth more than rubies. But I believe many men discover the hard way that virtue, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

Of all fragrances, the sweetest is that of virtue.

Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him...As for the virtuous poor...they have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very poor pottage.

Look for the virtues of faithfulness instead of miracles