Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Burke, Edmund

Best Quotes about Virtue

Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Confucius

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

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

Bible

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Camus, Albert

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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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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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

Confucius

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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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

West, Mae

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Virgil

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Rogers, Will

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Plato

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

Smith, Adam

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

Bush, George

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal