(911 quotes found)
“Virtue has never been as respectable as money”
Mark Twain
“As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.”
Albert Einstein
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
C.S. Lewis
“Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.”
Buddha
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.”
David Starr Jordan
“Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.”
Socrates
“The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong".”
Sydney J. Harris
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
Marcus Aurelius
“One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”
Maya Angelou
“Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.”
Proverb
