Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Murdoch, Iris

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Smith, Adam

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Virgil

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

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

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

Jordan, David Starr

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

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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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 craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

Camus, Albert

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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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

Sallust

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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

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

Marquis, Don

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Confucius

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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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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Pope, Alexander

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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 is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

West, Mae

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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Confucius

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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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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.

Bovee, Christian Nevell