Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Smith, Adam

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Sallust

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bush, George

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Antrim, Minna

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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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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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 by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

West, Mae

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

Marquis, Don

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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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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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

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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Virgil

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Burke, Edmund

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

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

Rogers, Will

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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Shaw, George Bernard