Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

Best Quotes about Virtue

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

11.

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

12.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

Lippmann, Walter

13.

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

Pope, Alexander

14.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

15.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

17.

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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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

19.

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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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.

21.

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

Murdoch, Iris

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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 deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Virgil

27.

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

28.

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

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

30.

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

Horace

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

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

Sallust

36.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

37.

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

Confucius

38.

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Butler, Samuel

40.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Camus, Albert

42.

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

Plato

43.

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

Marquis, Don

44.

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

Hazlitt, William

45.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

48.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.

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