Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Virtue is a sure anchor.

- Motto

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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

Plato

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

Johnson, Samuel

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints. [Ephesians 5:3]

Bible

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Camus, Albert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Confucius

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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 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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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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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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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 by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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.

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

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