Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Bradley, Francis H.

Best Quotes about Virtue

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bradley, Francis H.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Lao-Tzu

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Marquis, Don

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

Camus, Albert

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

West, Mae

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sallust

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

Antrim, Minna

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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

23.

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

25.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

26.

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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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

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

Plato

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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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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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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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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

42.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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