Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

- Schlegel, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Virtue

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Virgil

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

Pope, Alexander

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

Horace

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

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

Confucius

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 the strongest shield.

Motto

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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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Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

West, Mae

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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Confucius

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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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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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 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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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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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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