Motivational Quotes
Virtue
Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.
Best Quotes about Virtue
Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
Dahlberg, Edward
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Howe, Edgar Watson
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Nehru, Jawaharlal
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
Carlyle, Thomas
We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Smith, Adam
Virtue is a sure anchor.
Motto
I used to be snow white, but I drifted.
West, Mae
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
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
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Confucius
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
Lippmann, Walter
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
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. [Galatians 5:23, 24]
Bible
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
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Butler, Samuel
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 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
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
Bradley, Francis H.
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
The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust
Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office.
West, Mae
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
Swift, Jonathan
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.
Rogers, Will
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
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
Hazlitt, William
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.
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
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
Barney, Natalie Clifford
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
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Shaw, George Bernard
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
Burroughs, William S.
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.
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
I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.
Confucius
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
Galbraith, John Kenneth
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
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Camus, Albert
If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.
Bush, George
Virtue is reason which has become energy.
Schlegel, Friedrich
Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it.
Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
Johnson, Samuel
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
Be generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
Franklin, Billy Boy
Virtue that wavers is not virtue.
Milton, John
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
A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
Antrim, Minna
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