Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Johnson, Samuel

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

Jordan, David Starr

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Burke, Edmund

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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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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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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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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People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Confucius

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Camus, Albert

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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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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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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Bush, George

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

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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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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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Virgil

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.