Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Virgil

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.

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

Sallust

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. [Galatians 5:23, 24]

Bible

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.

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

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

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

10.

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

11.

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

Bush, George

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

Rogers, Will

13.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

16.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

18.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

19.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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 is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

24.

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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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

26.

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

28.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

29.

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

Hazlitt, William

30.

But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints. [Ephesians 5:3]

Bible

31.

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

32.

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

West, Mae

33.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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

Proverb, Chinese

36.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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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 homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

Antrim, Minna

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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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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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

43.

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

Confucius

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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Virtue survives the grave.