Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

- Barney, Natalie Clifford

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Virgil

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

Camus, Albert

I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.

Confucius

10.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

11.

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

Horace

12.

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

13.

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

Addison, Joseph

14.

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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

18.

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

Bible

19.

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

20.

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

Burroughs, William S.

21.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

22.

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

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

26.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

28.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

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

Plato

31.

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

Lippmann, Walter

32.

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

Confucius

33.

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

34.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

35.

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

Sallust

36.

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.

37.

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

Jordan, David Starr

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.

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

West, Mae

40.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

41.

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

Murdoch, Iris

42.

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

Rogers, Will

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Hazlitt, William

46.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

47.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

48.

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

49.

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.

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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