Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Jordan, David Starr

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

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

Confucius

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

Rogers, Will

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Virgil

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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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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Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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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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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

Marquis, Don

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Plato

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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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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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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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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Ah, Eug?nie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?

Sade, Marquis De

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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