Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Confucius

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Smith, Adam

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

12.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

13.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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

Plato

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

25.

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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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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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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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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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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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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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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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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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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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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There is no substitute for virtue. Keep your thoughts virtuous. Rise above the filth that's all around you in this world and stand tall in strength and virtue. You can do this and you will be happier for it for as long as you live. God bless you in cherishing, developing and holding on to this great gift, the quality of personal virtue.

Hinckley, Gordon B.

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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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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

Hazlitt, William

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Virgil

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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 is the strongest shield.

Motto

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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 reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich