Motivational Quotes

Virtue

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Virtue

Ah, Eug?nie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?

Sade, Marquis De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Bible

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

Bush, George

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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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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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.

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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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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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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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

Rogers, Will

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Confucius

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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 is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Marquis, Don

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

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

West, Mae

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Plato

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

Camus, Albert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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