Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

- Schlegel, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Virgil

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

Bible

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

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

Plato

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

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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

Camus, Albert

10.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

11.

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

Lao-Tzu

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

15.

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

Murdoch, Iris

16.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

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

Pope, Alexander

18.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

19.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

20.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Rogers, Will

26.

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

27.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

28.

Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness of human habitations are what human nature habitually abhors; while on the contrary, haze, mist, and the haunting spirits of the mountains are what human nature seeks, and yet can rarely find.

His, Kuo

29.

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

Bush, George

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

32.

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

Jordan, David Starr

33.

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

Burke, Edmund

34.

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

35.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

36.

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

Sallust

37.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

38.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

39.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

40.

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

Johnson, Samuel

41.

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

42.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

West, Mae

44.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.