Virtue

(268 votes)   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.

Gordon B. Hinckley

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(209 votes)   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.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(198 votes)   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?

Thomas p Kempis
1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer

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(161 votes)   The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(157 votes)   Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

Sir John Vanbrugh
1664-1726, British Playwright and Baroque architect

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(145 votes)   Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(141 votes)   Assume a virtue if you have it not.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(139 votes)   If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(134 votes)   Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.

Will Rogers
1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor

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

Edgar Watson Howe
1853-1937, American Journalist, Author

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(126 votes)   Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet

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(123 votes)   Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

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(119 votes)   Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

David Starr Jordan
1851-1931, American Biologist, Educator

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(118 votes)   Virtue is the strongest shield.

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(107 votes)   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.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
1855-1919, American Poet, Journalist

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