Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Antrim, Minna

Best Quotes about Virtue

Virtue survives the grave.

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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Smith, Adam

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Bush, George

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

West, Mae

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

Confucius

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Virgil

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

18.

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

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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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Marquis, Don

25.

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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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 craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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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]

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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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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.

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

Antrim, Minna

39.

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

Confucius

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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Camus, Albert

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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Burke, Edmund

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Virtue is a sure anchor.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Virtue is the strongest shield.

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