Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Virtue is a sure anchor.

- Motto

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Confucius

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Lippmann, Walter

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints. [Ephesians 5:3]

Bible

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Marquis, Don

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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 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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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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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Plato

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

Camus, Albert

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Virgil

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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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

Confucius

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Antrim, Minna

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

West, Mae

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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 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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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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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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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Pope, Alexander

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