Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Virtue

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Lao-Tzu

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

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Johnson, Samuel

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Rogers, Will

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

Addison, Joseph

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Be generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Plato

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Confucius

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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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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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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

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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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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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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 is a sure anchor.

Motto

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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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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

39.

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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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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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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.

47.

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

Virgil

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Marquis, Don

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Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.