Top 32 Quotes About Being Virtuous
#1. What determines our being virtuous is largely the absence of opportunity to be otherwise
Eric Nicol
#2. If you look at your life and compare your life to that of an evil person, you will find that in most regards both lives are the same. You don't live a longer life or live forever by being virtuous.
Gerry Lindgren
#3. Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous. As it can only be preserved among estimable persons, it forces us to resemble them. You find in friendship the surety of good counsel, the emulation of good example, sympathy in our griefs, succor in our distress.
Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles
#4. The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Plato
#5. Goodness, beauty, truthfulness, honesty, and being virtuous are the essence of the world. Whatever happens, the world will one day find this essence, for no one can prevent such an event
M. Fethullah Gulen
#6. There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.
Confucius
#8. Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.
Julian Baggini
#9. It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
Mary Shelley
#10. She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
Emile Zola
#11. The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
John Dryden
#12. It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be better or even to feel like oneself is better than a fellow human being. What is wrong is to gloat in one's own virtue. Therefore, gloating in one's own virtue is not virtuous.
Christopher Jones
#13. This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.
Tacitus
#14. I think the 'counterculture' believes that there are ways to manage being the world's most powerful country that involve creation of consensus - ruling by virtuous example rather than by force of arms.
John Perry Barlow
#15. It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
Josh Billings
#16. A girl could be virtuous without being perfect. Back
Katherine Boo
#17. The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#18. To be a great and virtuous man appeared the highest honour that can befall a sensitive being; to be base and vicious, as many on record have been, appeared the lowest degradation, a condition more abject than that of the blind mole or harmless worm.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#19. What is the good of being ready with the tongue? They who encounter men with smartnesses of speech for the most part procure themselves hatred. I know not whether he be truly virtuous, but why should he show readiness of the tongue?
Confucius
#20. The virtuous man takes the middle road between the two extremes, making a point of being respectful of his own ideas without changing his personality or style.
Auliq Ice
#21. Everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.
Brandon Sanderson
#22. Total commitment is about being wise and smart, not necessarily being noble or virtuous. It's not so much about self-denial but about logic and common sense. It's not so much about what you lose; it's about what you gain.
Chip Ingram
#23. Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.
Barbara Sher
#24. A moral Agent is a being that is capable of those actions that have a moral quality, and which can properly be denominated good or evil in a moral sense, virtuous or vicious, commendable or faulty.
Jonathan Edwards
#25. Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.
Aristotle.
#26. Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.
William Penn
#27. Virtuous people always let go.
They don't prattle about pleasures and desires.
Touched by happiness and then by suffering,
The sage shows no sign of being elated or depressed.
Gautama Buddha
#28. Being postmodern, however, is about being complicit rather than virtuous, it is about approaching categories like Good and Evil with a certain ironic skepticism.
Veronica Hollinger
#29. We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens. I am sick and tired of the American citizen being demeaned and treated as a second-class citizen while anybody who crosses the border is treated as the most virtuous human being on the face of the earth.
Mark Levin
#30. Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.
Luc De Clapiers
#31. What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
Nikita Khrushchev
#32. The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
Tacitus
