Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Virgil

But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints. [Ephesians 5:3]

Bible

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

Sallust

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

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

Camus, Albert

11.

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

Confucius

12.

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

Confucius

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Addison, Joseph

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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

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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 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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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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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 by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

31.

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 is a sure anchor.

Motto

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.