Quotes About Virtue

The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it.

Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.

He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.

Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.

It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular effects to someone else, no one can trust for us.

The life of a good man is a continual prayer.

If I am right Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong O teach my heart To find that better way!

Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

She had conquered them, as she would conquer so many in the years to come, by goodness rather than strength. It is a sorrowfully rare strategem.

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He urges himself to strengthen his virtues now, without any further delay. This is what he means when he commands himself to limit himself to the present. Worrying about the future and regretting the past badly interfere with focussing on being virtuous in the present. He writes that if he can cut free of distracting imprassions that cling to his mind and can free his mind from the future and the past, then he can make himself, as Empedocles says, "a sphere rejoicing in its perfect stillness.

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

In the first place, in the physician or surgeon no quality takes rank with imperturbability, and I propose for a few minutes to direct your attention to this essential bodily virtue.

Chesterton decía que el bien no consiste simplemente en abstenerse de hacer el mal, que el bien no puede ser una virtud meramente negativa y pasiva, que el bien debe ser algo que obra, algo perceptible por sus frutos, así como el blanco es un color y no una simple ausencia de color.

Virtue keeps more people out of heaven than all their sins combined.

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

If men be good, government cannot be bad.

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.