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Virtue Quotes

Quotes on honor, charity, and everyday character.

Several quotes here separate being honorable from being flawless, suggesting virtue is closer to a daily practice than a finished state. That grounded view of Integrity shapes much of the collection.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Quotes by Adlai Stevenson I

As an actor, technically, when you are off a film, you are out of a job. An actor goes from job to job. By virtue, acting is an unsure profession.

Quotes by Aditya Roy Kapur

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Quotes by Adela Florence Nicolson

Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.

Quotes by Adam Grant

Emotion Quotes

Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.

Quotes by Adam Grant

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

Quotes by William Slim

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

Quotes by William Cullen Bryant

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

Quotes by William Bennett

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Quotes by Will Durant

Integrity Quotes

There is regressivity built into the tax code by virtue of its complexity.

Quotes by Wendy Long

I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.

Quotes by Wayne Rogers

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Voltaire

What is superfluous to your poor estate, distribute. This is distributive charity: a virtue so sacred that crimes against it are the forerunner of inevitable doom.

Quotes by Vincent McNabb

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

Quotes by Tom Hiddleston

Morality Quotes

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Quotes by Thomas Paine

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Quotes by Thomas Paine

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Quotes by Thomas Paine

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

Quotes by Thomas Malthus

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Thomas Jefferson

Strength Quotes

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Thomas Jefferson

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this Virtue quotes page cover?
It gathers lines examining virtue from different, sometimes challenging angles — tax policy, personal honor, outdated ideas about chastity, and charitable giving. One quote calls an old belief about virginity a mere superstition rather than a genuine virtue.
Why do people search for quotes about virtue?
Virtue quotes get used to talk about personal integrity or to question inherited moral assumptions, and this page leans toward the latter as much as the former. Integrity quotes is a close companion for the more personal side of that theme.
Is there an unusual or unexpected angle on virtue here?
Yes, one quote applies the word almost ironically to tax policy, noting that unfair regressivity results from how complicated the code has become — a technical use of the word rather than a moral one.
Does the collection touch on charity as a virtue?
One quote calls giving away what exceeds your own basic needs a sacred form of charity, warning that offenses against it invite serious consequences. It gives the page a weightier, almost moral-philosophy dimension. Morality quotes pairs naturally with that idea.
Are these quotes good for reflective or discussion-style sharing?
They work well for posts examining values, honesty, or generosity, since the quotes range from self-aware humility to pointed questioning of moral assumptions. Strength quotes is worth browsing for a related angle on character.

Other lines treat generosity toward those in need as a sacred duty, while one notes how a complicated tax code can quietly build unfairness into a system. For more, see Morality quotes and Strength quotes.