Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

Jordan, David Starr

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

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

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Virgil

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

Marquis, Don

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Rogers, Will

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

Addison, Joseph

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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

Confucius

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Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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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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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Camus, Albert

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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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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 must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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Virtue is the strongest shield.