Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

- Hare, David

Best Quotes about Virtue

1.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

2.

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

Confucius

3.

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

4.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

5.

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

Bible

6.

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

Johnson, Samuel

7.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

8.

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

Butler, Samuel

9.

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

Marquis, Don

10.

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

Bible

11.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Swift, Jonathan

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

14.

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.

15.

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

16.

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

Pope, Alexander

17.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

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

19.

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

Rogers, Will

20.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

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

Lippmann, Walter

22.

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

Proverb, Chinese

23.

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

24.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

25.

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

Lao-Tzu

26.

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

Jordan, David Starr

27.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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.

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

30.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

31.

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

32.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

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

Camus, Albert

36.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

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

Horace

38.

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

39.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

40.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

West, Mae

43.

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

44.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

45.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

46.

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

47.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John