Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Shaw, George Bernard

With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich.

Proverb, Chinese

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Pope, Alexander

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

West, Mae

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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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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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 a sure anchor.

Motto

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

Rogers, Will

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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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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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lippmann, Walter