Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Virtue

1.

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

Lao-Tzu

2.

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.

3.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

4.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

5.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

6.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

7.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

8.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

9.

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

Plato

10.

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

Butler, Samuel

11.

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

12.

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

Rogers, Will

13.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

15.

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

Camus, Albert

16.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

17.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

18.

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

19.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

20.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

21.

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

Jordan, David Starr

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

25.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

26.

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.

27.

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

Marquis, Don

28.

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

Lippmann, Walter

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Sallust

32.

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

Confucius

33.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

34.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

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

Johnson, Samuel

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

West, Mae

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Swift, Jonathan

42.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

43.

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

Smith, Adam

44.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.

Johnson, Samuel

45.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

46.

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

47.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

48.

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

49.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

50.

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

Proverb, Chinese