Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Antrim, Minna

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

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

Confucius

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Jordan, David Starr

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Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office.

West, Mae

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

Marquis, Don

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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 is the strongest shield.

Motto

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Virgil

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

Rogers, Will

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth