Motivational Quotes

Virtue

The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bush, George

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

Sallust

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

11.

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

Antrim, Minna

12.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

13.

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

14.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

15.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

17.

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

Rogers, Will

18.

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

19.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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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

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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 highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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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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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

Lippmann, Walter

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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

28.

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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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Camus, Albert

32.

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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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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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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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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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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Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

Virgil

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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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 reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Marquis, Don

45.

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

Burke, Edmund

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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Plato