Quotes About Virtue

Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.

There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

The essential thing is not knowledge, but character.

If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security.

Pues tal es la virtud de los sueños: que apartan nuestra mirada del huesudo rostro de la muerte.

El corazón de los hombres, al contrario que su piel, no tiene diferentes colores. O tiene grandeza o no la tiene, nada más

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

Benjamin Franklin wrote: "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."40

los tres rasgos del liderazgo creíble señalados por Aristóteles: virtud, desinterés y sabiduría práctica.

We each carry a measure of grace, and we each carry a measure of evil. There is never enough grace to banish the evil, and there is never enough evil to smother the grace.

Confucius said the doctrine of the mean was the highest virtue, and rare among men. The Buddhists call it the middle way. Aristotle saw moderation as the essence of virtue. I say moderation in all things, even moderation.

Saintliness is also a temptation.

That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect.

Patience is a virtue, Virtue is a grace; Both put together Make a very pretty face

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

Some just wanted to be on the side of the good cookies.

I call saintliness not a state but the moral procedure leading to it.

Saintliness means turning pain to good account. It means forcing the devil to be God.

Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.

You don't have to dream when you habitually think good and do good.

When More had said that a man who cannot restrain his passions is essentially cruel, he spoke the truth.