Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Murdoch, Iris

Best Quotes about Virtue

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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

West, Mae

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

Camus, Albert

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

Addison, Joseph

14.

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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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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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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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 survives the grave.

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

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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

23.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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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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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 highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Rogers, Will

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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

Confucius

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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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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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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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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

Plato

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth