Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Virtue

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Confucius

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

Murdoch, Iris

10.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

11.

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

Virgil

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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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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.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Confucius

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Camus, Albert

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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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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 used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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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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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 that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

West, Mae

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

Sallust

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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