Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Confucius

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

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.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Camus, Albert

12.

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

Jordan, David Starr

13.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

15.

Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.

Duncan, Isadora

16.

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

17.

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

18.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

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

20.

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

Smith, Adam

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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

23.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

24.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

25.

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

Murdoch, Iris

26.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

Johnson, Samuel

28.

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

29.

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

Addison, Joseph

30.

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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

32.

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

Johnson, Samuel

33.

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

34.

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

35.

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

Plato

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.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

38.

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

39.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

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

Virgil

41.

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

Pope, Alexander

42.

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

43.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

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

Lippmann, Walter

45.

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

Bush, George

46.

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

Burke, Edmund

47.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

48.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

49.

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.

50.

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