Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

- Washington, George

Best Quotes about Virtue

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Confucius

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

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

Horace

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Marquis, Don

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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

Camus, Albert

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Bush, George

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People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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 a sure anchor.

Motto

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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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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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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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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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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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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Butler, Samuel

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

Rogers, Will

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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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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 is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Addison, Joseph

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