Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Virtue is harmony.

- Pythagoras

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

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

Antrim, Minna

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

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

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

Jordan, David Starr

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

Virtue is a sure anchor.

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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.

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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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 survives the grave.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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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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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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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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Virtue is the strongest shield.

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Marquis, Don

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Rogers, Will

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

Virgil

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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.