Quotes About Virtue

recuerda por favor que el orgullo excesivo es un pecado corriente, pero que un hombre puede, con la misma facilidad, frustrar la voluntad de Dios por una excesiva humildad.

Si es pecado codiciar el honor, soy el mayor de todos los pecadores».

El orgullo excesivo es un pecado corriente, pero que un hombre puede, con la misma facilidad, frustrar la voluntad de Dios por una excesiva humildad.

When he thought about how he had been slighted, condescended to, manipulated and deceived, he became angry. Obedience was a monastic virtue, but outside the cloisters it had its drawbacks, he thought bitterly. The world of power and property demanded that a man be suspicious, demanding, and insistent.

L'eccesso di orgoglio è un peccato molto diffuso, ma un uomo può frustrare altrettanto facilmente il volere di Dio per eccesso di umiltà.

Obedience was a monastic virtue, but outside the cloisters it had its drawbacks, he thought bitterly. The world of power and property required that a man be suspicious, demanding, and insistent.

He was a good man, ma'am,' she said. 'Never raised a hand to me.' The Queen did not know what to say about a man whose virtue was that he did not beat his wife.

My father hated people who preached about morality. We're all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn't count. It's when you want so badly to do something wrong - when you're about to make a fortune from a dishonest deal, or kiss the lovely lips of your neighbor's wife, or tell a lie to get yourself out of terrible trouble - that's when you need the rules.

My father hated people who preached about morality. We're all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn't count. It's when you want so badly to do something wrong—when you're about to make a fortune from a dishonest deal, or kiss the lovely lips of your neighbor's wife, or tell a lie to get yourself out of terrible trouble—that's when you need the rules. Your integrity is like a sword, he would say: you shouldn't wave it until you're about to put it to the test.

Creo que lo que hago se convierte en parte de mí, cuando soy valiente y fuerte, y cuidando de los niños, los enfermos y los pobres me convierto en mejor persona. Y cuando soy cruel, o cobarde o cuento mentiras, me convierto en alguien menos digno y no puedo respetarme a mí misma. Ésa es la retribución divina en la que creo.

Watson. He is our better self.

The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.

Doing the right thing has power.

Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.

The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.

While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.

If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.

There is explosive power in virtue.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.