Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

West, Mae

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Virgil

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

Burke, Edmund

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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 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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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Confucius

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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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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Bush, George

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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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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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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.

32.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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

Sallust

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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 is harmony.

Pythagoras

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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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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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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De