Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

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Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Confucius

If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, it suffices to avoid bad thoughts and to keep our souls turned toward the Lord.

Philokalia

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Sallust

14.

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

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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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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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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

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

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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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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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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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

24.

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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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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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Marquis, Don

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

Addison, Joseph

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

West, Mae

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bush, George

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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