Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Hazlitt, William

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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.

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

Marquis, Don

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Burke, Edmund

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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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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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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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

13.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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

Bush, George

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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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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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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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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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 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

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Confucius

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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 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.