Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

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

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Rogers, Will

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

17.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Bible

20.

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

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

Virgil

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

24.

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

Confucius

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Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Butler, Samuel

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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

33.

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

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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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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

36.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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 is the strongest shield.

Motto

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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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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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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.