Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Bush, George

Best Quotes about Virtue

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Antrim, Minna

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Virgil

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

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

Rogers, Will

10.

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

Confucius

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

Lao-Tzu

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Confucius

16.

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

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.

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

Bible

19.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

20.

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

Hazlitt, William

21.

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.

22.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

Horace

23.

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

Burroughs, William S.

24.

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

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

Lippmann, Walter

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

29.

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

Smith, Adam

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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.

33.

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

Swift, Jonathan

34.

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

35.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

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

West, Mae

37.

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

38.

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

Marquis, Don

39.

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

40.

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

Butler, Samuel

41.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

42.

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

Bible

43.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

44.

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

Pope, Alexander

45.

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

46.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

47.

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

Camus, Albert

48.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Burke, Edmund

49.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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