Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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.

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

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

Horace

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

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

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

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lippmann, Walter

15.

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

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

Sallust

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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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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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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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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Antrim, Minna

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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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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

Hazlitt, William

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

27.

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

Confucius

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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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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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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 survives the grave.

Motto

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

Camus, Albert

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

Virgil

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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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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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Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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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 is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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

Rogers, Will

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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