Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Johnson, Samuel

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Butler, Samuel

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

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Horace

13.

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

Pope, Alexander

14.

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

15.

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

Lippmann, Walter

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Confucius

19.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

20.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

21.

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

22.

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

Camus, Albert

23.

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.

24.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

25.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

26.

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

Confucius

27.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

Bush, George

32.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

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

Smith, Adam

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.

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

Rogers, Will

36.

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.

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

Plato

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

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

Antrim, Minna

41.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

42.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

46.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

47.

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

48.

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

West, Mae

49.

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

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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George