Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

- Barney, Natalie Clifford

Best Quotes about Virtue

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Smith, Adam

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Burke, Edmund

Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness of human habitations are what human nature habitually abhors; while on the contrary, haze, mist, and the haunting spirits of the mountains are what human nature seeks, and yet can rarely find.

His, Kuo

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

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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

11.

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

Sallust

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

Antrim, Minna

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

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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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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Confucius

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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 is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Camus, Albert

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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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.

34.

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Confucius

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

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

42.

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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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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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

Addison, Joseph

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

West, Mae

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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

48.

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 craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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