Motivational Quotes
Virtue
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
Best Quotes about Virtue
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.
The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust
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
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
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
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
Virtue is a sure anchor.
Motto
Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Washington, George
The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
Bovee, Christian Nevell
If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.
Bush, George
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
Lippmann, Walter
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
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
Hare, David
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
If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
Bovee, Christian Nevell
When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
Marquis, Don
From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
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
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
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
Virtue survives the grave.
Motto
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
Virtue is the strongest shield.
Motto
Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.
Pope, Alexander
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
Johnson, Samuel
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
Jordan, David Starr
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
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Butler, Samuel
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Plato
Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office.
West, Mae
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.
Proverb, English
Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
Johnson, Samuel
Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.
Rogers, Will
With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich.
Proverb, Chinese
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
Carlyle, Thomas
Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.
Shaw, George Bernard
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
Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it.
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Camus, Albert
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Burke, Edmund
We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Murdoch, Iris
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
Thoreau, Henry David
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
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
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Confucius
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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