Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Virtue

1.

The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.

Lytton, Lady Constance

2.

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

Virgil

3.

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

4.

It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

5.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

6.

Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

7.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Plato

8.

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

Carlyle, Thomas

9.

Ah, Eug?nie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?

Sade, Marquis De

10.

Be generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

Franklin, Billy Boy

11.

Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it.

12.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

13.

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

15.

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

16.

Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office.

West, Mae

18.

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

Marquis, Don

19.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Addison, Joseph

20.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

22.

But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints. [Ephesians 5:3]

Bible

23.

I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.

Jung, Carl

24.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

25.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Lao-Tzu

26.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

27.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

Diderot, Denis

28.

Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

Antrim, Minna

30.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

Jordan, David Starr

31.

With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich.

Proverb, Chinese

32.

Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness of human habitations are what human nature habitually abhors; while on the contrary, haze, mist, and the haunting spirits of the mountains are what human nature seeks, and yet can rarely find.

His, Kuo

33.

Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.

Duncan, Isadora

34.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

35.

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

36.

The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

37.

You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?

Kempis, Thomas

38.

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

Murdoch, Iris

39.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.

Confucius

41.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.