Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Marquis, Don

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Bible

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

Thoreau, Henry David

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Confucius

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

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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

Addison, Joseph

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

14.

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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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.

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

Horace

20.

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

West, Mae

25.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

26.

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

Johnson, Samuel

28.

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

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

Bush, George

30.

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

Virgil

31.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

32.

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

Camus, Albert

33.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

34.

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

35.

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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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Jordan, David Starr

39.

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

Butler, 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

41.

Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

43.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

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

Rogers, Will

45.

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

46.

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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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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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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

Confucius

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