Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Lippmann, Walter

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Marquis, Don

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

10.

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

11.

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

Camus, Albert

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

14.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Butler, Samuel

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Addison, Joseph

26.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Pope, Alexander

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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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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

35.

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

Antrim, Minna

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lippmann, Walter

43.

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

Confucius

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

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

Confucius

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

Bush, George