Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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.

Best Quotes about Virtue

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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.

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

Marquis, Don

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Sallust

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

Confucius

10.

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

11.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

Plato

14.

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

15.

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

West, Mae

16.

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

Lao-Tzu

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

20.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Chinese

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

25.

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

26.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

27.

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

28.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

29.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

Virgil

32.

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

Antrim, Minna

33.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

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.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

37.

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

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

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

Butler, Samuel

40.

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

41.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

42.

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

Swift, Jonathan

43.

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

Lippmann, Walter

44.

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

45.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

46.

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

47.

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

Bible

48.

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