Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Virtue

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Bible

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.

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

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

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.

Bush, George

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Ah, Eug?nie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?

Sade, Marquis De

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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Marquis, Don

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

Johnson, Samuel

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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

Diderot, Denis

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

West, Mae

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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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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

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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Plato

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a man to know that he shall die, that is common to all men; as much as there is no man that may ever live or he hath hope or trust thereof; but thou shalt find full few that hath this cunning to learn to die. I shall give thee the mystery of this doctrine; the which shall profit thee greatly to the beginning of ghostly health, and to a stable fundamental of all virtues.

Suso, Heinrich

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Pope, Alexander

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I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.

Confucius

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

Hazlitt, William

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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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.

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It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Addison, Joseph

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A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

Antrim, Minna

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

Bible

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

Lao-Tzu

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it.

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Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

Virgil

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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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Smith, Adam

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Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.

Duncan, Isadora

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Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

Burroughs, William S.

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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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