Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Smith, Adam

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

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. [Galatians 5:23, 24]

Bible

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Burke, Edmund

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 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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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Smith, Adam

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

Camus, Albert

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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 by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Addison, Joseph

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Virgil

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Milton, John

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Confucius

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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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

44.

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

Marquis, Don

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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.