Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Bush, George

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Swift, Jonathan

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

10.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

11.

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

Marquis, Don

12.

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

13.

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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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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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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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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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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From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Addison, Joseph

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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 reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

32.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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 is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Confucius

41.

But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints. [Ephesians 5:3]

Bible

42.

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

Sallust

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

West, Mae

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bush, George

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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