Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Virtue is harmony.

- Pythagoras

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

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

Virgil

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

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Camus, Albert

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Rogers, Will

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Antrim, Minna

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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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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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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Plato

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, 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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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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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 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.