Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

Best Quotes about Virtue

1.

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

Marquis, Don

2.

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

Swift, Jonathan

3.

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

4.

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

Virgil

5.

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

6.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

7.

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

Butler, Samuel

8.

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

9.

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

10.

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

Antrim, Minna

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

12.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

13.

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

18.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

19.

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

Johnson, Samuel

20.

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

Proverb, Chinese

21.

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

Camus, Albert

23.

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

Lippmann, Walter

24.

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

Smith, Adam

25.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Lao-Tzu

28.

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

29.

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

West, Mae

30.

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

31.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

32.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

33.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

34.

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

35.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

36.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

37.

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

Rogers, Will

38.

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

39.

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

44.

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

45.

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

Burke, Edmund

46.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

47.

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

Confucius

48.

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