Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Virtue

Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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.

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Pope, Alexander

10.

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Murdoch, Iris

13.

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

Virgil

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Confucius

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

Shaw, George Bernard

22.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Confucius

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

29.

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

Bush, George

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

Antrim, Minna

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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

33.

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 that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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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 by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

West, Mae

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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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

Marquis, Don

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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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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