Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Virtue

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

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

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

Sallust

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

Burke, Edmund

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Pope, Alexander

12.

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

13.

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

Lao-Tzu

14.

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

15.

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 one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

17.

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

Johnson, Samuel

18.

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

West, Mae

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

Shaw, George Bernard

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Confucius

31.

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

32.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

33.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

34.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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

40.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Camus, Albert

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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