Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Murdoch, Iris

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

Horace

10.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Plato

12.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Antrim, Minna

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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

18.

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

Confucius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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

Bible

25.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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

32.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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 is a sure anchor.

Motto

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

Virgil

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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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

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

43.

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Marquis, Don