Quotes on “virtue”

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.

Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.