Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Camus, Albert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

West, Mae

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Confucius

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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 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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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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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 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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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.

Thoreau, Henry 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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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Rogers, Will

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Bush, George

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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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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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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Virgil

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Confucius

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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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 by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Smith, Adam

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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