Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Confucius

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Lao-Tzu

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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 survives the grave.

Motto

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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 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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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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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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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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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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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 that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Antrim, Minna

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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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

Jordan, David Starr

28.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Plato

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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