Quotes About Virtue

The obedient always think about themselves as virtuous, rather than cowardly.

Truly said, "We've talked to people, Mr. Cole. You've an outstanding reputation for diligence, and your integrity is above reproach.

the "sum of virtue," Hobbes writes, "is to be sociable with them that will be sociable, and formidable to them that will not."1

In the Bible, the opposite of Sin, with a capital 'S,' is not virtue - it's faith: faith in a God who draws all to himself in his resurrection.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Lenea este mama tuturor viciilor, dar fiind o mam? ea trebuie respectat?

I make a virtue of my suffering From nearly everything that goes on round me. In other words, I know wherever I am, Being the creature of literature I am, I shall not lack for pain to keep me awake.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.

Renaissance diplomat and courtier Niccolò Machiavelli wrote, "Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.

I believe there are failures of character, like I said before. That's a sin.

I never wanted to safe... I wanted to be good.

I think some people who lead special lives, have somehow made this weird jump that they're better because of it. When you see that, its ugly. Being humble is pretty sexy. Being humble is a pretty great quality. Living in humility is a good way to live.

Beauty has a lot to do with character.

of wrongdoing and rightdoing

But I hope you will heed this: A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Consciousness of the bad is an essential prerequisite to the promotion of the good.

No happiness but in virtue. No, that wasn't true. Each part of the triune brain has its own happiness. Lizard in the sun, mammal on the hunt, human doing something good. What's good is good for the land. So when you worked as if on the hunt, in light and warmth, at making a landscape--some place for people to live in for ages to come--then you were triunely happy. Surely that should be enough. But then you wanted to share it. Just so there would be someone to be pleased together with.

V?n nh?ng vi?c làm t?t s? ??p hÆ¡n khi chúng ???c thá»±c hi?n th?m l?ng, ph?i làm sao cho vi?c t?t Ä'ang ???c tay trái làm mà tay ph?i không bi?t

Treue gegen sich selbst und Gütigkeit gegen Andere: Darin ist alles befasst.

In an incredulous tone, he said, You don't know the meaning of virtue! Of course I do-it means your thong must be white. (Sabine)

Sabine gave a Scoff. I could be virtuous, if I wanted to be. In an incredulous tone, he said, You don't know the meaning of virtue! Of course I do - it means your thong must be white.

Sabine gave a scoff. "I could be virtuous, if I wanted to be." In an incredulous tone, he said, "You don't know the meaning of virtue!" "Of course I do—it means your thong must be white.

the uncontrolled senses are considered plunderers. The good position one attains by executing religious principles is wasted as the plundering senses take it away