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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

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

Virgil

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

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

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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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 craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

17.

Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it.

18.

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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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

20.

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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 simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

Burroughs, William S.

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Hinckley, Gordon B.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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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If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, it suffices to avoid bad thoughts and to keep our souls turned toward the Lord.

Philokalia

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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 is harmony.

Pythagoras

32.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Smith, Adam

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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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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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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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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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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Addison, Joseph

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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

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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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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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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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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