Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Plato

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bush, George

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

Antrim, Minna

10.

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

11.

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

12.

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

13.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

14.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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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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 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 is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

21.

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

Marquis, Don

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Lippmann, Walter

25.

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

26.

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

27.

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

Rogers, Will

28.

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

Burke, Edmund

29.

Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bible

32.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

33.

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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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

41.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

43.

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

Confucius

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

West, Mae

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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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

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

Confucius

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De