Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

- Schlegel, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Confucius

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Jordan, David Starr

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lippmann, Walter

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

Marquis, Don

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If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, it suffices to avoid bad thoughts and to keep our souls turned toward the Lord.

Philokalia

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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

23.

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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Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Butler, Samuel

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Virgil

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

Bush, George

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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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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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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

44.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Pope, Alexander

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