Vacations - Quotes

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A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work. - Morris Fishbein

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it. - Robert Orben 

A vacation is like love: anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. - Evan Esar

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. - Maya Angelou

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do. - Margaret Laurence

I do not really like vacations. I much prefer an occasional day off when I do not feel like working. When I am confronted with a whole week in which I have nothing to do but enjoy myself I do not know where to begin. To me, enjoyment comes fleetingly and unheralded; I cannot determinedly enjoy myself for a whole week at a time. - Robertson Davies

It is not the place you choose for a vacation that determines your enjoyment but the company you tag along with. - Unknown

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. - Elbert Hubbard

Only a fool blames his bad vacation on the rain. - Paul Theroux

The best thing about a vacation is planning it. - Andrew A. Rooney

The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life. - Elbert Hubbard

The trouble with vacations is you have to earn them before you go and make up for them when you come back. It is really more restful just to keep on working. - Henry Allen Moe

Though most tourists accepted the occasional comic misadventure, it was important to them that overall their vacation should be pleasant. When you spend money on a holiday you are essentially purchasing happiness: if you don't enjoy yourself you will feel defrauded. - Alison Kurie

Vacations are a proper reward to anyone who has worked hard throughout the year. - Stephen L. J. Smith

Vacations are a time to stop our daily routines, take a break, rest, invite adventure, engage in easy conversations, and have fun. They provide an excellent space in which to connect with our higher awareness, our being, and those in our lives. - Suzanne Kyra & Nathan Derksen

Vacations are designed to refresh the outlook of everyone. No matter how tired they may be when they return to work, vacationers have been refreshed emotionally and intellectually. Their effectiveness in their job has probably improved, and they are, generally speaking, better employees for the time off. - Robert J. Fischer

Vacations are good for taking us away for a while from the things we deal with in the work world, and helping us get a fresh look at things when we return. Some companies insist their employees take a vacation for this reason. - Rex Lee Reynolds

Vacations are seen as an antidote to work. They are medicine, a remedy for counteracting the effects of labour.... Vacations allow us to be away from the job, to change the patterns of our day, to alter our routine, to reconfigure our actions and habits, to rediscover ourselves. - Al Gini

Vacations brighten a man. They tend to make his work more attractive to him and to make him more attractive to his work. - Harry van Demark

Vacations have become somewhat of a status symbol and a measuring device of how well we're keeping up with the Joneses. This is another path that leads directly into the "Artificial Wealth Trap." While I am a strong advocate of taking time to travel and experience other locales, you must keep in mind that vacations are not long term investments. The strategy here is simple: Do not use your credit cards to finance your travels. You may be living it up in the lap of luxury and relaxation while on vacation but ask yourself how relaxed you will feel when the bills come in. - J. J. Childers

Vacations interfere with momentum. - Daniel Kirschenbaum

Vacations should always be just long enough for your boss to miss you, but not so long he finds out he can really do quite well without you. - Unknown

Vanity - Quotes

A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving. - William Penn

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding. - Alexander Pope

Foolish men always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity. - J. P. Vinluca

He that hath nothing to feed on but vanity and lies must needs lie down in the bed of sorrow. - Anne Bradstreet

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by 'vanity' only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing. - Yousef Karsh

If vanity does not overthrow all virtues, at least she makes them totter. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat. - David Hewson

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. - Luc de Clapiers

It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us. - La Rochefoucauld

It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Many a man could easily support a wife if he didn't also have to feed her vanity. - Evan Esar

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. - Louis Kronenberger

One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about. - Bertrand Russell

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity. - Madame Swetchine

Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic. - Michael Ayrton

Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity makes us desire the esteem of others. - Hugh Blair

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. - Benjamin Franklin

Take from mankind their vanity and ambition, and where would be the heroes and patriots? - Seneca

That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me. - Andre Dubus

The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness. - Alexander von Humboldt

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. - Miguel de Cervantes

The most violent passions have their intermissions; vanity alone gives us no respite. - La Rochefoucauld

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. - Thomas Wolfe

The vanity of others is only counter to our taste when it is counter to our vanity. - Friedrich Nietzsche

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it. - Mark Twain

There is no limit to the vanity of this world, each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it. - H. W. Shaw

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. - Edward Bulwer

There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate. - Henry Ward Beecher

To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's. - William Penn

To feel vanity on account of anything, is proving that we are not accustomed to it. - Pierre Claude Victoire Boiste

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself. - Max Beerbohm

Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is. - Chamfort

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. - Jane Austen

Vanity blossoms but bares no fruit. - Nepalese Proverb

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. - Julian Casablancas

Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him. - William Hazlitt

Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. - Dennis Lehane

Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to win our approbation, and in this way he flatters us. - Arthur Lynch

Vanity is often so excessive, that those who are compelled to walk on crutches would fain make us believe they are raised on stilts. - Eliza Cook

Vanity is often the unseen spur. - William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired – even I who write this, and you who read this. - Blaise Pascal

Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has vanity in the commerce and society of the world. - Lord Greville

Vanity is the quicksand of reason. - George Sand

Vanity is what makes the man in a rut think he's in the groove. - Evan Esar

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. - Joseph Conrad

Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief. - Jane Austen

Vanity's a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs and chuck us over; but Pride's a fine horse, who will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow travelers.... How often have you read of people rising from nothing, and becoming great men? This was from talent, sure enough; but it was talent with pride to force it onward, not talent with vanity to check it. - Frederick Marryat

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. - Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

We say little if not egged on by vanity. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves. - Jack Gardner

What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it. - L'estrange

Variety - Quotes

If order in objects is necessary, variety is so also; without this the soul grows languid, for objects which resemble each other appear to it to be the same; thus histories please us by the variety of relations, romances by the variety of prodigies, theatrical pieces by the variety of passions; and they who properly instruct us vary as much as they can their form of instruction. - John Hinton

No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety. - Pubilius Syrus

Nothing is pleasant which is not spiced with variety. - Francis Bacon

Periodical variety is the want of the soul as well as of the body. - Francois Charles Marie Fourier

The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity. - Umberto Eco

The earth was made so various, that the mind of desultory man, studious of change and pleased with novelty, might be indulged. - William Cowper

The eye is pleased with the beautiful varieties of nature. - Virgil

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety. - Publilius Syrus

There is a grace in wild variety surpassing rule and order. - William Mason

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another. - Leonardo da Vinci

Variety alone gives joy; The sweetest meats the soonest cloy. - Matthew Prior

Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. - Jean Paul

Variety is pleasing to all persons, but to none so much as the young and the fickle. - George Crabb

Variety is the soul of pleasure. - Aphra Behn

Variety may be the spice of life, but consistency pays the bills. - Doug Cooper

Vengence - Quotes

A society built upon a foundation of vengeance is a society doomed to destroy itself. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Cries for justice are often the bitter laments of the vengeful. - Wayne Gerald Trotman

For vengeance is an emptiness and he that seeketh it wasteth himself. - Jeffrey Farnol

Man tames not vengeance; vengeance breaks the man. - Chris Galford

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. - Charlotte Bronte

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when they make their tormentors suffer. - Laura Hillenbrand

To treat a man with kindness rather than vengeance is the way to move him. Vengeance may break his spirit; but kindness will break his heart. - William Barclay

Vengeance is a monster of appetite, forever bloodthirsty and never filled. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Vengeance is one of life's great motivators. - K. S. Brooks

Vengeance never brought anything back but pain. - Kasalobi

Vices - Quotes

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever. - Mark Twain

In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface. - E. H. Chapin

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. - Abraham Lincoln

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Men often abstain from the grosser vices as too coarse and common for their appetites, while the vices which are frosted and ornamented are served up to them as delicacies. - Henry Ward Beecher

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted. - Rebecca West

There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning – without altogether recognizing it beneath the disguise of ambiguous behaviour which it assumes in his presence. - Marcel Proust

Vices are their own punishment. - Aesop

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher. - Seneca

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue. - Lord Chesterfield

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! - Charles Dicken

We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar. - Publilius Syrus

We try to make a virtue of vices we are loath to correct. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Victories - Quotes

Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. - Unknown

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt

Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way – like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows. - Dan Simmons

For every victory, there is a price. - Jacqueline Carey

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory. - Miguel de Cervantes

Get out of that negative environment and get into an atmosphere of victory, where people build you up rather than tear you down. Find a place where people will encourage you and challenge you to be the best you can be. Find a place where people inspire you to reach for new heights. Friend, you have to envision good things happening to you before they ever will. - Joel Osteen

Great victory requires great risk. - Rick Riordan

I firmly believe that any man's finest hours – his greatest fulfilment of all that he holds dear – is the moment when he has worked his heart out in good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious. - Vince Lombardi

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat. - Jean-Paul Sartre

If you have a vision of victory for your life, you can rise to a new level. But as long as you have your head down, with your gaze on the ground instead of on your possibilities, you run the risk of moving in the wrong direction and missing out. - Joel Osteen

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. - William Hazlitt

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you. - Buddha

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory. - Diane Arbus

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before. - Polybius 

Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe they will walk away with their lives. Such selfless courage is a victory in itself. - N. D. Wilson

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself. - Brandon Sanderson

The first place we must win the victory is in our own minds. If you don't think you can be successful, then you never will be. - Joel Osteen

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. - Marcus Aurelius

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. - Pascal

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give. - Unknown

The virtue of all achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat. - A. J. Cronin 

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. - Michel de Montaigne

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. - Elie Wiesel

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory. - Alison Goodman

To be prepared is half the victory. - Miguel de Cervantes

Tomorrow's victory is today's practice. - Chris Bradford

We often rebel against the strenuousness and chaos of our time. But historically it has always been in such time that man won his great inner victories. - E. M. McKee

Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains. - Marvin J. Ashton 

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary. - Mahatma Gandhi

Victory belongs to the most persevering. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Victory belongs to those that believe in it the most and believe in it the longest. - Randall Wallace

Victory is not possible, if one doesn’t learn from the past and mistakes made. - Auliq Ice

Victory is not won in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more. - Louis L'Amour 

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. - Malcolm D. Forbes

Victory is the thing of the will. - Ferdinand Foch

Victory shifts, you know, now one man, now another. - Homer

Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day. - Phil Jackson

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. - Harriet Woods

Violence - Quotes

A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us. - Mahatma Gandhi

A person who commits a violence against another is obviously in need of medical care. - Mack Reynolds

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished. - Marshall B. Rosenberg

As long as people use violence to combat violence, we will always have violence. - Michael Berg

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. - Mahatma Gandhi

In violence, we forget who we are. - Mary McCarthy

No amount of violence you've done to others prepares you for violence done to yourself. - Glen Duncan

No newsman in his right mind objects to a little violence, for that's what news is made of. - Clifford D. Simak

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. - Thomas A. Edison

Not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood, restless harbingers of violence and bloodshed, knowing no other path. - Robert E. Howard

One simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian ... one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend. - J. William Fulbright

Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence. - Mahatma Gandhi

The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence humans have ever committed. - Gil Bailie

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime. - Max Stirner

The threat of violence can be almost as stressful as actually suffering or witnessing violence. - L. Eugene Arnold

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it’s the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism. - Bell Hooks

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy. - Anthony Burgess

Violence begets violence and destroys communities and people. It brings heartbreak, tears and bitterness – a bitterness that sometimes extends across generations and twists and warps lives. It is a terrible phenomenon. - Unknown

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. - Arthur Conan Doyle

Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you. - William Hazlitt

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause. - Chris Hedges

Violence is an admission that one’s ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits. - Edward Kennedy

Violence is never the answer, until it's the only answer. - Derek Landy

Violence is not the problem; it is a consequence of the problem. - Jim Wallis

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. - Isaac Asimov

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor. - Robert Heinlein

Violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die; like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume. - William Shakespeare

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. - Martin Luther King Jr.

We pay for the violence of our ancestors. - Frank Herbert

What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence. - Mahatma Gandhi

You can no more eradicate violence than you could eradicate love or hate or laughter.... The love of violence is an aspect of our humanity. Even the weak wish to be strong primarily so they can wield the whip. - Dan Simmons

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition. - Dan Simmons

Virtues - Quotes

A man's virtue should not be measured by his occasional exertions, but by his ordinary doings. - Eliza Cook

A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood. - Austin O’Malley

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. - Theodore M. Hesburgh

As a good tree produces good fruit; even so does a virtuous soul produce pure thoughts. - William Scott Downey

As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue. - Ivan Panin

Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honour’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times. - Ben Jonson

Encourage all your virtuous dispositions, and exercise them whenever an opportunity arises, being assured that they will gain strength by exercise, as a limb of the body does, and that exercise will make them habitual. - Thomas Jefferson

Every deed of dishonour, every victim of vice, every ghastly spectacle of crime, is an eloquent testimony to the need and the worth of virtue. - E. H. Chapin

Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder. - George Washington

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. - Izaak Walton

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. - Confucius

He who sows virtue reaps glory. - Leonardo da Vinci

How easy it is to be virtuous when we have no inclination to be otherwise. - Dolf Wyllarde

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless. - Moliere

It is easy to meet death in an outburst of public spirit, but difficult to tread the path of virtue calmly.  - Unknown

It is safest to be moderately base – to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue. - Sydney Smith

It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin. - Confucius

It matters not from what stock we are descended so long as we have virtue; for that alone is true Nobility. - Wellins Calcott

Just as a bad year cannot bring death to the man whose stores of grain are large, so an age of corruption cannot confound him whose equipment of virtue is complete. - Mencius

Many a man gets a big reputation for Virtue and Morality, when if the truth were known, the poor boob was simply scared of getting caught. - Robert Elliot Gonzales

Most virtues and flowers bloom best on poor soil. - Austin O’Malley

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don’t let the facts get in the way of your imagination. - Sam Levenson

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. - Ben Franklin

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. - Joseph Addiso

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. - Confucius

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man. - Joseph Addison

That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert. - Charles Caleb Colton

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal. - Sallust

The great reason why false virtues pass so well in the world is, that true ones are so seldom near to compare them with. - Fluke Greville

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. -Aristotle

The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him. - William Hazlitt

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys. - Charles Caleb Colton

The simple virtues of willingness, readiness, alertness and courtesy will carry a man farther than mere smartness. - John Davidson

The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good man by their similarity of morals than the son is to his father by their similarity of face. - Magdeleine Sable

The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel. - Oliver Goldsmith

The virtues are a chain; and, if you break one link, the whole chain is useless. - Austin O’Malley

The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous. - Confucius

There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other. - Charles Caleb Colton

There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed. - Norman MacDonald

There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain. It is subject to no disappointments, since he that perseveres, makes every difficulty an advancement, and every contest a victory; and this is the pursuit of virtue. - Charles Caleb Colton

There is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness. - George Washington

This is the tax a man must pay to his virtues – they hold up a torch to his vices, and render those frailties notorious in him, which would have passed without observation in another. - Charles Caleb Colton

To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote. - Benjamin Franklin

Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains. - Charles Caleb Colton

Virtue and vice are the only things in this world, which, with our souls, are capable of surviving death; the former is the rational and only procuring cause of all intellectual happiness, and the latter of conscious guilt and misery; and therefore, our indispensable duty and ultimate interest is, to love, cultivate and improve the one, as the means of our greatest good, and to hate and abstain from the other, as productive of our greatest evil. - Ethan Allen

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. - George Bernard Shaw

Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure. - Marcus Valerius Martialis

Virtue has more admirers than followers. - Norman MacDonald

Virtue is as good as a thousand shields. - Latin Proverb

Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. - John Locke

Virtue is indeed its own reward. - Claudius

Virtue is insufficient temptation. - George Bernard Shaw

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. - Francis Bacon

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones. - Aristotle

Virtue is more to a man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue. - Confucius

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. - Confucius

Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good. - Miquel de Cervantes

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. - Christopher Marlowe 

Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Virtue is the health of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

Virtue makes us appear amiable to others; vice, contemptible even to ourselves. - Norman MacDonald

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Virtue, like beauty, is commonly only skin deep. - Austin O’Malley

We need greater virtues to sustain good fortune than bad. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. - David Starr Jordan

Without virtue man is merely the most dangerous of the animals. - Unknown