Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Sallust

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Smith, Adam

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rogers, Will

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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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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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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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

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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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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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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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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Bush, George

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

Confucius

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

West, Mae

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Burke, Edmund

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