Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

- Dahlberg, Edward

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Virgil

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

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

Jordan, David Starr

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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

Bradley, Francis H.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Antrim, Minna

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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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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

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Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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

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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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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Plato

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Rogers, Will

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

34.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Confucius

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 craves a steep and thorny path.