Virtue Quotes

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it."

"It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire."

"We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent."

"For, when with beauty we can virtue join, we paint the semblance of a form divine."

"These sorts of funds have set themselves up to outperform by virtue of the fact that individual picks can really make a difference."

"By the virtue of its thoroughness, the local application was successful,"

"The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue."

"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."

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it."

"Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge."

"In a period when there were a lot of M&A heated activity they, by virtue of being in the penalty box, could not realistically look at anything because there would be a question mark as to whether you could really close any transaction in a reasonable time."

"Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence."

"If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious."

"Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire."

"A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude."

"People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy."

"I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice."

"You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?"

"To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations."

"Whatever happens, the path of virtue should not be given up."