Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

Best Quotes about Virtue

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

West, Mae

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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Confucius

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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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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 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.

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bush, George

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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 a sure anchor.

Motto

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

Pope, Alexander

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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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

Confucius

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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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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Marquis, Don