Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Antrim, Minna

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Sallust

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

Jordan, David Starr

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. [Galatians 5:23, 24]

Bible

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

Virgil

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Camus, Albert

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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 rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Rogers, Will

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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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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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Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

24.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Confucius

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

Lippmann, Walter

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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Plato

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

Marquis, Don

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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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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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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