Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Virtue is harmony.

- Pythagoras

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

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

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

Marquis, Don

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Smith, Adam

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Addison, Joseph

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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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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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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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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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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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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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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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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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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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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 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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints. [Ephesians 5:3]

Bible

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Confucius

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

Camus, Albert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.