Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Rogers, Will

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Antrim, Minna

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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

Lao-Tzu

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Camus, Albert

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

Bradley, Francis H.

18.

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

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

Confucius

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

24.

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

Sallust

27.

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

28.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

29.

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

30.

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

Plato

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Butler, Samuel

35.

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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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

38.

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

West, Mae

39.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

Hazlitt, William

40.

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

Marquis, Don

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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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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 that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Murdoch, Iris

47.

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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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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Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford