Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lippmann, Walter

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 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 by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Marquis, Don

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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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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Sallust

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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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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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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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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 like health: the harmony of the whole man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Antrim, Minna

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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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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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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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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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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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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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

Confucius

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

Rogers, Will

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae