Motivational Quotes

Virtue

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

- Blackwell, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Virtue

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Swift, Jonathan

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Butler, Samuel

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Confucius

There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Marquis, Don

There is no substitute for virtue. Keep your thoughts virtuous. Rise above the filth that's all around you in this world and stand tall in strength and virtue. You can do this and you will be happier for it for as long as you live. God bless you in cherishing, developing and holding on to this great gift, the quality of personal virtue.

Hinckley, Gordon B.

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

Blackwell, Elizabeth

10.

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

Camus, Albert

11.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

12.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

13.

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

14.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

16.

Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a man to know that he shall die, that is common to all men; as much as there is no man that may ever live or he hath hope or trust thereof; but thou shalt find full few that hath this cunning to learn to die. I shall give thee the mystery of this doctrine; the which shall profit thee greatly to the beginning of ghostly health, and to a stable fundamental of all virtues.

Suso, Heinrich

17.

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

18.

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

Plato

19.

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

West, Mae

20.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

21.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

22.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

23.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Smith, Adam

24.

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

25.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

26.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

30.

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

Murdoch, Iris

31.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

Lippmann, Walter

32.

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

Johnson, Samuel

33.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. [Galatians 5:23, 24]

Bible

34.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

35.

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

Antrim, Minna

36.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

Hazlitt, William

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If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.

Bush, George

38.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

Vizinczey, Stephen

40.

Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.

Pope, Alexander

41.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

42.

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

43.

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

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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

45.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

46.

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

Confucius

47.

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

48.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.