Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

Best Quotes about Virtue

1.

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

2.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

3.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

7.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

8.

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

Confucius

9.

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

10.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

11.

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

Rogers, Will

12.

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

Bible

13.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

14.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

17.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

18.

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

Camus, Albert

22.

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

23.

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.

24.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

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

Pope, Alexander

26.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

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

28.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

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

Johnson, Samuel

30.

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

Marquis, Don

31.

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

Bush, George

32.

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

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Burroughs, William S.

35.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

36.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

37.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

38.

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

39.

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

Murdoch, Iris

43.

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

Butler, Samuel

44.

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

Burke, Edmund

45.

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