Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

West, Mae

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

Confucius

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

Pope, Alexander

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People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

24.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Confucius

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

Antrim, Minna

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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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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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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 by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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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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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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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Bush, George

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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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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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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 more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Smith, Adam

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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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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.