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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Virgil

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Pope, Alexander

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

Bush, George

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

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

10.

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

Confucius

11.

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 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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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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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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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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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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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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

Camus, Albert

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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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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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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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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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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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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 most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Plato

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Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office.

West, Mae

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John