Quotes About Virtue

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

It takes strength to be kind; it's not a weakness.

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

Every day, we have to strive to be better people. Some days we give in to weakness, and sometimes we give in to strength.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

The true nature of all wealth is temporary; those who have wealth must here and now do good deeds that will live for a long time.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Innocent pleasures are got by virtue and well-earned wealth.

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

The great virtue of the web, its ease of communication, has also become its Achilles' heel in that it has polluted the air with meaningless babble and egomaniacal drivel.

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to touch you. Stay away from it. Avoid it.

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

I'm not a politician and my other habits are good.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

The high road and positivity is never the easy way but always the best way.

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

I can always tell if someone is good in the core.

Actually, no one is born honest or corrupt.

Corruption is something you face all the time. Avoid it.