Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Bush, George

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Smith, Adam

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

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

Marquis, Don

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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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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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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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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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.

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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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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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If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, it suffices to avoid bad thoughts and to keep our souls turned toward the Lord.

Philokalia

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Virgil

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Confucius

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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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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Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.