Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

- Barney, Natalie Clifford

Best Quotes about Virtue

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bradley, Francis H.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Butler, Samuel

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

West, Mae

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

Virgil

11.

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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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

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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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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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 survives the grave.

Motto

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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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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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Sallust

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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Bible

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

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

Confucius

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

Confucius

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

Pope, Alexander

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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints. [Ephesians 5:3]