Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Sallust

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Pope, Alexander

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Bible

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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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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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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

Confucius

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

West, Mae

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

Sallust

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Virgil

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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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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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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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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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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 craves a steep and thorny path.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Addison, Joseph