Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Jordan, David Starr

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Smith, Adam

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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

Antrim, Minna

11.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

12.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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 a sure anchor.

Motto

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

Rogers, Will

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

20.

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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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

31.

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

Confucius

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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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.

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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 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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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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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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All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

Murdoch, Iris

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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