Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Horace

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Marquis, Don

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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.

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

Sallust

12.

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

13.

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

Addison, Joseph

14.

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

Smith, Adam

15.

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

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

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

19.

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

Confucius

20.

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.

21.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

22.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

23.

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

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

27.

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

Lao-Tzu

28.

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

29.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

30.

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.

31.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

32.

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

33.

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

Burke, Edmund

34.

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

Murdoch, Iris

35.

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

37.

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

Burroughs, William S.

38.

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

Antrim, Minna

39.

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

Jordan, David Starr

40.

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

Johnson, Samuel

41.

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

Confucius

42.

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

Plato

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

47.

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

Butler, Samuel

48.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

49.

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

50.

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