Motivational Quotes

Virtue

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

- Bradley, Francis H.

Best Quotes about Virtue

1.

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

Bush, George

2.

The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

3.

Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.

Rogers, Will

4.

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

5.

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

West, Mae

6.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

7.

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

8.

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

Camus, Albert

9.

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

Lao-Tzu

10.

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

Smith, Adam

11.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

12.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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.

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

Antrim, Minna

15.

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

Confucius

16.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

17.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

18.

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

Jordan, David Starr

19.

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

Confucius

20.

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

Bible

21.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

22.

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

23.

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

Johnson, Samuel

24.

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

25.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

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

27.

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

Pope, Alexander

28.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

29.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

30.

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

31.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

Burroughs, William S.

32.

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

Hazlitt, William

33.

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

Marquis, Don

34.

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

Plato

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

38.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

39.

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

41.

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

Sallust

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

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

Proverb, Chinese

44.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Shaw, George Bernard

45.

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

46.

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

Bradley, Francis H.

47.

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

48.

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

49.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

50.

If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, it suffices to avoid bad thoughts and to keep our souls turned toward the Lord.

Philokalia