Motivational Quotes

Virtue

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

Best Quotes about Virtue

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

Horace

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

Virgil

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Thoreau, Henry David

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

10.

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

Addison, Joseph

11.

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Washington, George

12.

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

Smith, Adam

13.

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

Plato

15.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

16.

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

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

19.

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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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 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.

22.

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

Sallust

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

25.

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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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

West, Mae

28.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

31.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Rogers, Will

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Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

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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

40.

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

41.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

42.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

Motto

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

45.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Marquis, Don

49.

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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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.