Motivational Quotes

Virtue

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Smith, Adam

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

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

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

Jordan, David Starr

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

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

Burke, Edmund

10.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

11.

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

Swift, Jonathan

12.

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

13.

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

Sallust

15.

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

Addison, Joseph

17.

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

Plato

18.

But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints. [Ephesians 5:3]

Bible

19.

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

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

Marquis, Don

21.

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

22.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

23.

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

Confucius

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

25.

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

Rogers, Will

26.

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

27.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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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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.

33.

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

Antrim, Minna

34.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

Lippmann, Walter

35.

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

36.

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

Pope, Alexander

37.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

38.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

39.

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

Johnson, Samuel

40.

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

Horace

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

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

Butler, Samuel

44.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. [Galatians 5:23, 24]

Bible

45.

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

Proverb, Chinese

46.

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

Virgil

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

Bush, George

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De