Motivational Quotes

Virtue

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Virtue

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Smith, Adam

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Confucius

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Marquis, Don

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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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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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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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 is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Plato

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bush, George

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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

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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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

West, Mae

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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