Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Virtue

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.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

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

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.

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

Marquis, Don

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Sallust

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

Rogers, Will

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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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 is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Confucius

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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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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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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