Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

- Barney, Natalie Clifford

Best Quotes about Virtue

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.

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

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

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Virgil

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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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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 craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

16.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

22.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

27.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

29.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Antrim, Minna

31.

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

32.

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

West, Mae

34.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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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

36.

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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

38.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?

Kempis, Thomas