Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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.

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Virgil

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Marquis, Don

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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

Pope, Alexander

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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Addison, Joseph

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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 reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Camus, Albert

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Rogers, Will

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

West, Mae

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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