Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Virtue

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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

Horace

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

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

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

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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Sallust

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Marquis, Don

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bush, George

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

Antrim, Minna

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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 is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Addison, Joseph

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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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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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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Confucius

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

Rogers, Will

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Confucius

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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Virgil

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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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

Thoreau, Henry David