Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Marquis, Don

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

Plato

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

Hazlitt, William

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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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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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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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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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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Confucius

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

Addison, Joseph

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

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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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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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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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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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