Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

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

Marquis, Don

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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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 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 is a sure anchor.

Motto

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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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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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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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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Virgil

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