Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Virtue

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Antrim, Minna

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

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

Virgil

11.

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

Lippmann, Walter

12.

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

Camus, Albert

13.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

14.

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

15.

With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich.

Proverb, Chinese

16.

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

Marquis, Don

17.

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

18.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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

20.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

25.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

26.

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

Bible

28.

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

Sallust

29.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Plato

31.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

34.

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

Burke, Edmund

35.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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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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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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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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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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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

41.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

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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To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Lao-Tzu

44.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

45.

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

46.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

47.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Smith, Adam

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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