Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Virtue

1.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

2.

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

Bible

3.

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

Confucius

4.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

5.

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

Proverb, Chinese

6.

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

Smith, Adam

7.

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

Virgil

8.

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

Johnson, Samuel

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Antrim, Minna

12.

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

13.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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.

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

16.

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

Horace

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Murdoch, Iris

19.

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

Burroughs, William S.

20.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

22.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

23.

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

Bush, George

24.

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

25.

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

Jordan, David Starr

26.

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

27.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

30.

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

31.

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

Marquis, Don

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.

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

Sallust

34.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

35.

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

Rogers, Will

36.

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

37.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

38.

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

West, Mae

39.

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

Lao-Tzu

40.

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

41.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

42.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

44.

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

Swift, Jonathan

45.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

46.

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

Pope, Alexander

47.

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

Plato

48.

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

49.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

50.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.