Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Marquis, Don

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

Confucius

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

West, Mae

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

Rogers, Will

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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

21.

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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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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 cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Camus, Albert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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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 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

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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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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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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.