Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

West, Mae

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lippmann, Walter

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

Sallust

13.

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

14.

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

Virgil

15.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

16.

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

Hazlitt, William

17.

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

Confucius

18.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

19.

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

Johnson, Samuel

20.

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

Confucius

21.

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

22.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

23.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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.

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

Butler, Samuel

27.

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

28.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

29.

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

Burroughs, William S.

30.

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

31.

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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

33.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

34.

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

Camus, Albert

35.

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

Plato

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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.

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

His, Kuo

40.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

41.

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

42.

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

Horace

43.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

44.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

45.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

46.

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

Bush, George

47.

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

48.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

49.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Proverb, Chinese

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