Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Burroughs, William S.

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Addison, Joseph

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.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Smith, Adam

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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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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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Marquis, Don

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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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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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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Butler, Samuel

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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Johnson, Samuel

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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 a sure anchor.

Motto

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

Camus, Albert

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

Plato

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

Confucius

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

West, Mae

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

Sallust

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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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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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto