Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Virtue

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Addison, Joseph

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bible

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

Bush, George

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Jordan, David Starr

10.

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

Plato

11.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

13.

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

Virgil

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.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

16.

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

Rogers, Will

17.

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

Camus, Albert

18.

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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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

20.

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

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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

Johnson, Samuel

22.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

23.

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

24.

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

Smith, Adam

25.

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

26.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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.

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

29.

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

Confucius

30.

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

31.

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

West, Mae

32.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

34.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

35.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

36.

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

37.

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

Burke, Edmund

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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

39.

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

Bible

40.

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.

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

Pope, Alexander

42.

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

Lao-Tzu

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

44.

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

Horace

45.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

48.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

49.

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

50.

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae