Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Virtue is the strongest shield.

- Motto

Best Quotes about Virtue

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.

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

Marquis, Don

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

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

Antrim, Minna

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

10.

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

Rogers, Will

12.

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

Bush, George

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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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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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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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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

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

32.

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

Camus, Albert

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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

35.

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

Johnson, Samuel

42.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

43.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Virgil

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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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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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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto