Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

- Schlegel, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Camus, Albert

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

Confucius

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Butler, Samuel

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.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Bush, George

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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

11.

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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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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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

16.

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

Virgil

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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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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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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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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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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 harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Johnson, Samuel

25.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 a sure anchor.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

31.

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

Antrim, Minna

32.

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

Hazlitt, William

33.

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

34.

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 deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Confucius

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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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Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.

Rogers, Will

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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

46.

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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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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

Addison, Joseph

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Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.