Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Virgil

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

10.

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

Sallust

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rogers, Will

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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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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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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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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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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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Confucius

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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

27.

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

Bush, George

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

Burke, Edmund

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

31.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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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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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 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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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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

West, Mae

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Marquis, Don

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Camus, Albert