Quotes on Virtue

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.Clare Luce

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• virtue

Misfortune does not always wait on vice; nor is success the constant guest of virtue.William Havard

• virtue
• habit

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, virtue is doing it.David Jordan

• virtue
• wisdom

The universe does not favor the greedy, the dishonest, the vicious, although on the mere surface it may sometimes appear to do so; it helps the honest, the magnanimous, the virtuous. All the great Teachers of the ages have declared this in varying forms, and to prove and know it a man has but to persist in making himself more and more virtuous by lifting up his thoughts.James Allen

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• honesty
• thought

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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, content, and a hundred other virtues which the idle never know.Charles Kingsley

• virtue

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.Socrates

• character
• virtue
• honor

The superior man seeks what is right; the inferior one, what is profitable.Confucius

• virtue

There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.Confucius

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• fear
• virtue
• wisdom

A virtue and a muscle are alike. If neither of them is exercised they get weak and flabby.Richard Rooney

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