Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

- Schlegel, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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.

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 is a sure anchor.

Motto

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Hazlitt, William

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Pope, Alexander

12.

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

Swift, Jonathan

13.

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

14.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

15.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

16.

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

17.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

18.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

19.

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

Camus, Albert

20.

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

Johnson, Samuel

21.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

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

Confucius

23.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

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

Sallust

25.

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

26.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

27.

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

28.

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

Lao-Tzu

29.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

30.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

31.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

32.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

33.

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

34.

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

35.

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

Marquis, Don

36.

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

Bush, George

37.

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

Bible

38.

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

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

Addison, Joseph

40.

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

Butler, Samuel

41.

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

Smith, Adam

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Virgil

44.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

46.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

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

48.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

49.

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

50.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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