Samuel Smiles Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.

  Samuel Smiles

  Use, Lasts, Influential

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.2

• The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Good Man, Vices

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.72

• The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue.

  Samuel Smiles

  Self, Class, People

  1859 Self-Help, ch.10.

• The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.

  Samuel Smiles

  Victory, Moral, Virtue

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.280

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