Quotes About Virtue

One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity, we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christlike characteristics.

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

I think that indignation is pleasurable, and it's pleasurable because it's self-righteous.

At least I'm going into the job with clean hands.

There is clothing that is improper for a Christian woman.

I don't commit any crimes.

I have a clear conscience.

A clear conscience is a sure card.

I have a moral conscience that is real central.

My conscience is clean.

You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.

I have always lived according to my conscience, and my past is clean.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

I don't smoke, drink, do drugs or even have affairs. If I don't even swear, I should be put in a shrine and sanctified.

It's a sin to swear.

Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

Be sweet, be good, and honest always.

You hear a lot of songs that are about people cheating or about infidelity. I haven't really heard one before about connecting with the noble part of yourself. I know it sounds a little bit cheesy, but that's the real deal. There are a lot of people who are making a genuinely good, sweet decision on a daily basis.

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed, will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come.

Oh, but a real princess would know that hard work ennobles the soul,' Rose objected. 'That would be one of the signs.

St. Thomas sums up all this briefly: "Now the aspect under which our neighbor is to be loved, is God, since what we ought to love in our neighbor is that he may be in God. Hence it is clear that it is specifically the same act whereby we love God, and whereby we love our neighbor. Consequently the habit of charity extends not only to the love of God, but also to the love of our neighbor.