Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Virtue is a sure anchor.

- Motto

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Bush, George

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

West, Mae

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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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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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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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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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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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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Virgil

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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Antrim, Minna

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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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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 like health: the harmony of the whole man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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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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

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

Sallust

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

Addison, Joseph