Quotes about Virtuous

"Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well-meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has."
-Confucius

"I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it."
-Confucius

"Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand."
-Confucius

"Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous."
-Sir Francis Bacon

"It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous."
-C. S. Lewis

"As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense."
-Jonathan Swift

"For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous."
-Publilius Syrus

"The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption."
-Bertrand Russell

"The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source."
-Lucretia Mott

"Your typical economic recovery is a virtuous cycle of spending, job creation, investments and more spending. Each one fuels the other."
-Chris Low

"Property left to a child may soon be lost; but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last."
-William Graham Sumner

"Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth."
-Richard Steele, Sr.

"Youth should heed the older-wittedWhen they say, don't go too far --Now their sins are all committed,Lord, how virtuous they are!"
-Wilhelm Busch

"There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause."
-P. J. O'Rourke

"As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action."
-Veda Upanishads

"For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds."
-William Congreve

"The person who is basically evil by nature will always be averse to virtuous deeds. He is always engaged in bad karma. "
-Sam Veda

"Rinsing out tuna cans and tying up newspapers may make you feel virtuous, but recycling could be America's most wasteful activity."
-John Tierney

"The world and all things in it are valuable; but the most valuable thing in the world is a virtuous woman."
-Abu Muhammad

"Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other."
-Edward G. Bulwer lytton

"The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things."
-Marcus Valerius Martialis

"Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards."
-Saskya Pandita

"I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human."
-Clive Owen

"Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women."
-Phyllis Schlafly

"I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power."
-Thomas Willis

"There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die."
-William Harvey

"Because they've got the employment, the people go there. It's a virtuous circle. It works in the right direction."
-David Wyss