Quotes About Virtue

Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part of mankind.

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

He who loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.

If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one.

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue.

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

Our bodies are temples of the Lord. We should earn respect and admiration for our hearts, not for showing skin to look sexy.

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

He does not seek glory - yet people respect him.

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.

In the ancient world, this was understood by the Christians, our only (if very imperfect) predecessors: Humility is a virtue, pride a vice; We comes from God, I from the Devil.

Alçak gönüllülük erdem, gurursa kusurdur. "Biz" tanr?dan, "Ben" ÅŸeytandan gelir.

Christians of the ancient world (our only predecessors, as imperfect as they were) also understood this: humility is a virtue and pride is a vice; "WE" is divine, and "I" is satanic.

Have wisdom in your actions and faith in your merits.

The desire for knowledge, like the thirst for wealth, increases by acquisition, but as Bishop Lee has told us, "Knowledge without common sense is folly; without method it is waste; without kindness it is fanaticism; without religion it is death." But, Dean Farrar added: "With common sense, it is wisdom; with method it is power; with charity beneficence; with religion it is virtue, life, and peace.

When you do what you know is right,' Father explained, 'you find a dignity in yourself that makes you a happy person.

If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Every virtuous woman desires a husband to whom she can look for guidance and protection through this world. God has placed this desire in woman's nature. It should be respected by the stronger sex. Any man who takes advantage of this, and humbles a daughter of Eve to rob her of her virtue, and cast her off dishonored and defiled, is her destroyer, and is responsible to God for the deed.

Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.

He that's ungrateful, has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.