Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Confucius

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Butler, Samuel

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 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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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Camus, Albert

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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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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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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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

Rogers, Will

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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

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

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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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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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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 is the strongest shield.

Motto

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

West, Mae

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Confucius

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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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But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints. [Ephesians 5:3]