Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Virtue

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Sallust

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Antrim, Minna

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

10.

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

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

Marquis, Don

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

West, Mae

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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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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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From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Virgil

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

Lao-Tzu

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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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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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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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.