Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

- Barney, Natalie Clifford

Best Quotes about Virtue

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

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.

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

I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.

Jung, Carl

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

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

Horace

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

Pope, Alexander

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You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?

Kempis, Thomas

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

West, Mae

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We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Confucius

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rogers, Will

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Antrim, Minna

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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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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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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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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.

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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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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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There is no substitute for virtue. Keep your thoughts virtuous. Rise above the filth that's all around you in this world and stand tall in strength and virtue. You can do this and you will be happier for it for as long as you live. God bless you in cherishing, developing and holding on to this great gift, the quality of personal virtue.

Hinckley, Gordon B.

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Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Camus, Albert

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