Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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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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

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

West, Mae

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

Johnson, Samuel

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

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

Bush, George

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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

Smith, Adam

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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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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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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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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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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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Antrim, Minna

27.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Confucius

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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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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

33.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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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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That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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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 harmony.