Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

- Barney, Natalie Clifford

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Swift, Jonathan

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rogers, Will

Be generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

Franklin, Billy Boy

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Burke, Edmund

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Sallust

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Antrim, Minna

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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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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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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There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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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

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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Marquis, Don

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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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Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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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