Motivational Quotes

Virtue

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Virtue

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Rogers, Will

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.

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

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

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

Lao-Tzu

10.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

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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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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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 is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Camus, Albert

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

Confucius

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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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All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

Murdoch, Iris

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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 survives the grave.

Motto

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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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Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Confucius

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

Burke, Edmund

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Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

Jordan, David Starr

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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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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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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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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Marquis, Don

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

Burroughs, William S.