Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

- Hare, David

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Antrim, Minna

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Butler, Samuel

With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

10.

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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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.

18.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Rogers, Will

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

Sallust

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Confucius

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

West, Mae

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Burke, Edmund

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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

42.

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

Bush, George

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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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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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