Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

- Schlegel, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Virtue

If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.

Bush, George

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

West, Mae

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Antrim, Minna

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Camus, Albert

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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

11.

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

Sallust

12.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

13.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Smith, Adam

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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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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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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

19.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

23.

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

Confucius

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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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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

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

31.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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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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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

47.

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

Virgil

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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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