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Virtue

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



Best Quotes about Virtue

1.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. [Galatians 5:23, 24]
Bible

2.
When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
Marquis, Don

3.
Be generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
Franklin, Billy Boy

4.
The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
Bovee, Christian Nevell

5.
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
Lao-Tzu

6.
From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

7.
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Nehru, Jawaharlal

8.
Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it.

9.
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Butler, Samuel

10.
But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints. [Ephesians 5:3]
Bible

11.
Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.
Shaw, George Bernard

12.
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

13.
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
Hare, David

14.
That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
Thoreau, Henry David

15.
The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust

16.
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

17.
Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.
Rogers, Will

18.
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Murdoch, Iris

19.
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
Galbraith, John Kenneth

20.
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

21.
With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich.
Proverb, Chinese

22.
Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.
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

24.
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
Bradley, Francis H.

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

26.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.
Proverb, English

27.
Virtue is a sure anchor.
Motto

28.
Virtue is reason which has become energy.
Schlegel, Friedrich

29.
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

30.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Smith, Adam

31.
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Burke, Edmund

32.
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Howe, Edgar Watson

33.
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Addison, Joseph

34.
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
Barney, Natalie Clifford

35.
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

36.
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.

37.
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

38.
Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Washington, George

39.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Shaw, George Bernard

40.
Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
Dahlberg, Edward

41.
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
Lippmann, Walter

42.
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

43.
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.
If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.
Bush, George

45.
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
Carlyle, Thomas

46.
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

47.
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

48.
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

49.
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.

50.
Virtue that wavers is not virtue.
Milton, John


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