Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Carlyle, Thomas

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Chinese

The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Sallust

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

10.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Marquis, Don

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

Confucius

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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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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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

Camus, Albert

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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 reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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