Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Virtue

1.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

2.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

3.

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

Johnson, Samuel

4.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

5.

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

6.

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

7.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

8.

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

9.

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

Smith, Adam

10.

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

Lippmann, Walter

11.

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

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.

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

Antrim, Minna

14.

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

Camus, Albert

15.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

16.

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

17.

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

18.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Horace

21.

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

22.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

23.

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

24.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

25.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

26.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

27.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

28.

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

Marquis, Don

29.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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.

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

Burke, Edmund

32.

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

Pope, Alexander

33.

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

Jordan, David Starr

34.

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

Confucius

35.

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

Rogers, Will

36.

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

37.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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

Johnson, Samuel

39.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

Sallust

42.

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

43.

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

Plato

44.

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

Lao-Tzu

45.

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

Murdoch, Iris

46.

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

47.

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

Virgil

48.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

49.

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

Addison, Joseph

50.

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