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

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

Confucius

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.

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Virgil

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Confucius

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

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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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 is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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

15.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Camus, Albert

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Bush, George

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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

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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.

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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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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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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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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Plato

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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