Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Confucius

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

Bible

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

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

West, Mae

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

Sallust

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

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.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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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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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Camus, Albert

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Rogers, Will

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Antrim, Minna

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Marquis, Don

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Confucius

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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 harmony.

Pythagoras

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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 is the strongest shield.

Motto

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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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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

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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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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