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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
Virtue Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Virtue

1.
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
Carlyle, Thomas

2.
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
Bradley, Francis H.

3.
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
Lao-Tzu

4.
Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
Virgil

5.
Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

6.
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

7.
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

8.
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.

9.
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
Barney, Natalie Clifford

10.
Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.
Pope, Alexander

11.
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Butler, Samuel

12.
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
Lippmann, Walter

13.
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

14.
With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich.
Proverb, Chinese

15.
Virtue survives the grave.
Motto

16.
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Burke, Edmund

17.
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.

18.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.
Virtue is reason which has become energy.
Schlegel, Friedrich

20.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. [Galatians 5:23, 24]
Bible

21.
Be generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
Franklin, Billy Boy

22.
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

23.
The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
Bovee, Christian Nevell

24.
Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Washington, George

25.
I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.
Confucius

26.
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Confucius

27.
Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
Johnson, Samuel

28.
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Nehru, Jawaharlal

29.
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

30.
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
Johnson, Samuel

31.
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Addison, Joseph

32.
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.
The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust

34.
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

35.
A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
Antrim, Minna

36.
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

37.
I used to be snow white, but I drifted.
West, Mae

38.
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
Galbraith, John Kenneth

39.
Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it.

40.
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
Hazlitt, William

41.
Virtue that wavers is not virtue.
Milton, John

42.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Smith, Adam

43.
Virtue is harmony.
Pythagoras

44.
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Howe, Edgar Watson

45.
Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office.
West, Mae

46.
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

47.
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

48.
From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.
Proverb, English

50.
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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