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

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Bible

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

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

Murdoch, Iris

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

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

Confucius

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

Marquis, Don

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

11.

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

Bible

12.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

13.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

14.

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

15.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Camus, Albert

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

20.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Sallust

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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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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Virgil

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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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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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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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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

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

33.

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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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Antrim, Minna

36.

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

Bush, George

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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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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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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The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Lippmann, Walter