31 Quotes About Being a Virtuous Woman

Living like a virtuous woman means you have embarked on a journey of personal healing and self love. These quotes about being a virtuous woman highlight some of the core characteristics of living a life of empowerment.

“A virtuous character is likened to an unblemished flower. Piety is a fadeless bud that half opens on earth and expands through eternity. Sweetness of temper is the odor of fresh blooms, and the amaranth flowers of pure affection open but to bloom forever.”

“All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.”

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

“All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.”

“All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.”

“Every virtuous woman desires a husband to whom she can look for guidance and protection through this world.”

“I believe that we all have a responsibility to give back. No one becomes successful without lots of hard work, support from others, and a little luck. Giving back creates a virtuous cycle that makes everyone more successful.”

“Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman’s counsel; her winged spirit Is feathered often times with heavenly words, And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.”

“May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity – a virtuous woman.”

“Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.”

“No pretense stop wasting my time. A virtuous woman is really hard to find.”

“Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.”

“Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.”

“One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.”

“People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.”

“Save the love we pay to heaven, there is none purer, holier, than that a virtuous woman feels for him she would cleave through life to. ”

“The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.”

“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.”

“The fitness of the pupil is shown in his love for the acquisition of knowledge, his willingness to receive instruction, his reverence for learned and virtuous men, his attendance upon the teacher, and his execution of orders.”

“The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.”

“The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.”

“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”

“The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.”

“The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.”

“The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic – adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls.”

“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.”

“There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.”

“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.”

“There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.”

“There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.”

“There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.”

The book of Proverbs calls us to be a woman of grace and purity.