Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Virtue

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Antrim, Minna

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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 one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Confucius

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 survives the grave.

Motto

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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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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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Marquis, Don

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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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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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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

Pope, Alexander

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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

Camus, Albert

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

Virgil

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

Addison, Joseph