Motivational Quotes

Virtue

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Virtue

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

Plato

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.

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.

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

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

West, Mae

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Virgil

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Confucius

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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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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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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 is a sure anchor.

Motto

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Smith, Adam

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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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With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Marquis, Don

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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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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.