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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Smith, Adam

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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.

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

Bible

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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 survives the grave.

Motto

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

Bush, George

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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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 is harmony.

Pythagoras

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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 the strongest shield.

Motto

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

West, Mae

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Confucius

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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