Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Plato

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

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Smith, Adam

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

Jordan, David Starr

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

10.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Confucius

17.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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 that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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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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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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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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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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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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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

31.

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

Virgil

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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

40.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

West, Mae

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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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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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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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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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.