Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Vice

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his understanding, and makes his mind paralytic.
Edmund Burke (1729–97) British Philosopher, Statesman

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better… while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allen (b.1935) American Film Actor, Director

Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest, manly principle will daily accumulate. We are not too nicely to scrutinize motives as long as action is irreproachable. It is enough to deal out its infamy to convicted guilt and declared apostasy.
Edmund Burke (1729–97) British Philosopher, Statesman

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. So blinded are we to our passions, that we suffer more to insure perdition than salvation. Religion does not forbid the rational enjoyments of life as sternfy as avarice forbids them. She does not require such sacrifices of ease as ambition; or such renunciation of quiet as pride. She does not murder sleep like dissipation; or health like intemperance; or scatter wealth like extravagance or gambling. She does not embitter life like discord; or shorten it like duelling; or harrow it like revenge. She does not impose more vigilance than suspicion; mere anxiety than selfishness; or half as many mortifications as vanity!
Hannah More

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
Moliere (1622–73) French Playwright

Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
Ramana Maharshi (1879–1950) Indian Hindu Mystic

Gluttony is not a secret vice.
Orson Welles (1915–85) American Film Director, Actor

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Samuel Butler

Vice can deceive under the shadow and guise of virtue.
Juvenal (c.60–c.136 CE) Roman Poet

Vice is but a nurse of agonies.
Philip Sidney (1554–86) English Soldier Poet, Courtier

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Charles Dickens (1812–70) English Novelist

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien… that the more you see it the better you like it.
Finley Peter Dunne (1867–1936) American Author, Writer, Humorist

To attack vices in the abstract, without touching persons, may be safe fighting, but it is fighting with shadows.
Junius Unidentified English Writer

Let thy vices die before thee.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

Rich people are almost always excellent promoters. They can are willing to promote their products, their services, and their ideas with passion and enthusiasm.
T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author

There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbors, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor [can] humility mitigate.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German Philosopher

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

Vices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies. If each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know how the world could go on.
Richard Whately (1787–1863) English Philosopher, Theologian

It is a great thing to know our vices.
Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American Inventor, Scientist, Entrepreneur

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

No man ever arrived suddenly at the summit of vice.
Juvenal (c.60–c.136 CE) Roman Poet

Virtue seems to be nothing more than a motion consonant to the system of things; were a planet to fly from its orbit it would represent a vicious man.
William Shenstone (1714–63) British Poet, Landscape Gardener

Vice—that digs her own voluptuous tomb.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.
Bret Harte (1836–1902) American Short Story Writer, Poet

Beware of the beginnings of vice.—Do not delude yourself with the belief that it can be argued against in the presence of the exciting cause.—Nothing but actual flight can save you.
Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846) English Painter, Writer

Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night.
Marcel Proust (1871–1922) French Novelist

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) American Nationalist, Author, Pamphleteer, Radical, Inventor

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