Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Bible

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Sallust

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

Bible

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

Confucius

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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

Camus, Albert

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

Bradley, Francis H.

10.

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

Burroughs, William S.

11.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

12.

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.

13.

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

Butler, Samuel

14.

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

15.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

16.

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

Jordan, David Starr

17.

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

18.

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

19.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

20.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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

Horace

28.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

29.

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

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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

32.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

33.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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.

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

38.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

39.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

40.

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

Pope, Alexander

41.

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

Rogers, Will

42.

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

43.

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

Smith, Adam

44.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

45.

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

Lippmann, Walter

46.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

47.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

48.

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.

49.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

50.

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De