Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

Best Quotes about Virtue

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

Smith, Adam

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

West, Mae

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Sallust

10.

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

Lao-Tzu

11.

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

12.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

13.

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

14.

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

Antrim, Minna

15.

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

16.

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

Johnson, Samuel

17.

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

18.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

19.

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.

20.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

21.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

22.

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

23.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

28.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

29.

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

30.

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

31.

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

Lippmann, Walter

32.

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

Pope, Alexander

33.

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.

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

38.

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

41.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

42.

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

Plato

43.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

44.

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

Camus, Albert

45.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

46.

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

Jordan, David Starr

47.

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

Swift, Jonathan

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

50.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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