Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Franklin, Billy Boy

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

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

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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.

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

Confucius

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

Sallust

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Camus, Albert

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

Johnson, Samuel

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.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

12.

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

Marquis, Don

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

17.

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

18.

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

19.

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

20.

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

Smith, Adam

21.

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

22.

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

Antrim, Minna

23.

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

24.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

25.

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

Swift, Jonathan

26.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Lippmann, Walter

30.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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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.

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

Confucius

33.

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

34.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Horace

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Butler, Samuel

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

West, Mae

39.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

40.

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Plato

44.

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

45.

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

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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.

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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

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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

49.

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

Bible

50.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy