Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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 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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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

Proverb, Chinese

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

10.

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

Murdoch, Iris

11.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

12.

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

Horace

13.

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

Bible

14.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

15.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Confucius

20.

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

West, Mae

21.

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

22.

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

Confucius

23.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

Smith, Adam

26.

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

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

29.

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

Johnson, Samuel

30.

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

Butler, Samuel

31.

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

Johnson, Samuel

32.

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

Bush, George

33.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

38.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

39.

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

Rogers, Will

40.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

41.

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

Burroughs, William S.

42.

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

Addison, Joseph

43.

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.

44.

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

Marquis, Don

45.

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

Plato

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell