Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Virtue is the strongest shield.

- Motto

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Sallust

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Confucius

Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Jordan, David Starr

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Marquis, Don

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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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If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.

Bush, George

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

Camus, Albert

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

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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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Hazlitt, William

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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Virgil

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Virtue is harmony.