Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Virtue survives the grave.

- Motto

Best Quotes about Virtue

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Confucius

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

Rogers, Will

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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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

11.

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

Antrim, Minna

12.

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

Plato

13.

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

Virgil

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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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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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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Butler, Samuel

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

18.

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

19.

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

Marquis, Don

20.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

25.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bush, George

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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 is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Smith, Adam

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

West, Mae

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