Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Butler, Samuel

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.

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

Confucius

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

Virgil

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

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

Bible

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

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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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 is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Pope, Alexander

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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

Camus, Albert

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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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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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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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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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Marquis, Don

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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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