Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Murdoch, Iris

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

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

Bible

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

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

Plato

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

Antrim, Minna

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Addison, Joseph

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

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

11.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

12.

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

Confucius

13.

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

14.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

16.

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

Vizinczey, Stephen

19.

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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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

Hazlitt, William

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

24.

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

25.

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

Rogers, Will

28.

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

29.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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

Jordan, David Starr

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Johnson, Samuel

41.

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.

42.

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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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.