Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

10.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

11.

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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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 is the strongest shield.

Motto

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

Virgil

18.

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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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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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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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Confucius

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Butler, Samuel

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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

33.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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Virtue is a sure anchor.

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.