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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Confucius

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

Murdoch, Iris

Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

West, Mae

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

Bush, George

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

Camus, Albert

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Plato

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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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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Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Pope, Alexander

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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 of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

Horace

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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

Sallust

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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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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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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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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Antrim, Minna

44.

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

45.

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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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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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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Be generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Virgil

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

Shaw, George Bernard