Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

Best Quotes about Virtue

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Lao-Tzu

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

Proverb, Chinese

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Camus, Albert

Suso, Heinrich

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Antrim, Minna

13.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

14.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

15.

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

16.

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

Bush, George

17.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

18.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

Burroughs, William S.

21.

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

22.

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

Rogers, Will

23.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

24.

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

Horace

25.

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

Virgil

26.

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

Burke, Edmund

27.

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.

28.

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

Butler, Samuel

29.

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

West, Mae

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

33.

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.

34.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

35.

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.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

39.

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

Addison, Joseph

40.

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

Johnson, Samuel

41.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

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

43.

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

44.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

45.

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

Marquis, Don

46.

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