Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Jordan, David Starr

Best Quotes about Virtue

1.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

2.

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

3.

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

Confucius

4.

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

5.

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

6.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

7.

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.

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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.

11.

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

12.

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

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

Pope, Alexander

15.

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

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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

Butler, Samuel

17.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

18.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

19.

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

20.

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

22.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

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

24.

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

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.

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

27.

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

Plato

28.

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

29.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

30.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

31.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

32.

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

33.

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

Burke, Edmund

34.

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

36.

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

37.

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

Horace

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Johnson, Samuel

40.

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

Murdoch, Iris

41.

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

Confucius

42.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

43.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

44.

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

Addison, Joseph

45.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

46.

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

Hazlitt, William

47.

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

Rogers, Will

48.

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

Marquis, Don

49.

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

Lippmann, Walter

50.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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