Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Virtue

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

Camus, Albert

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Lippmann, Walter

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

18.

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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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Virgil

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Marquis, Don

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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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

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

44.

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 by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford