Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Jordan, David Starr

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

Camus, Albert

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

West, Mae

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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Marquis, Don

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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

Antrim, Minna

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Sallust

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

Addison, Joseph

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Confucius

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

42.

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

Plato

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Confucius

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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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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