Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Marquis, Don

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

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

Confucius

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

Plato

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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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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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

Virgil

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

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Pope, Alexander

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Camus, Albert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Confucius

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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 is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

West, Mae

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