If you can look at yourself without condemning what you see, without comparing yourself with somebody else, without wishing to be more beautiful or more virtuous; if you can just observe what you are and move with it, then you will find that it is possible to go infinitely far. Then there is no end to the journey, and that is the mystery, the beauty of it.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the virtue and the pathos of man that he aspires endlessly toward a better world; it is his weakness and his tragedy that he does nothing to bring such a world even one step nearer.
—Ludwig Lewisohn
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
—Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
However fashionable despair about the world and about people may be at present, and however powerful despair may become in the future, not everybody, or even most people, thinks and lives fashionably; virtue and honor will not be banished from the world, however many popular moralists and panicky journalists say so. Sacrifice will not cease to be because psychiatrists have popularized the idea that there is often some concealed self-serving element in it; theologians always knew that. Nor do I think love as a high condition of honor will be lost; it is a pattern in the spirit, and people long to make the pattern a reality in their own lives, whatever means they take to do so.
—Robertson Davies
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
—G. K. Chesterton
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
—G. K. Chesterton
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
—G. K. Chesterton
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
—Robert Green Ingersoll
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
—Greek Proverb
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
—Winston Churchill
You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as a mysterious law of existence. In obedience to it we have to fulfill our destiny.
—Albert Schweitzer
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
—Clare Boothe Luce
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
—Blaise Pascal
We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.
—Marguerite de Valois