Quotes About Virtue

Manifest kindness to embrace greatness.

My mouth speaks what is true, for my lips detest wickedness. All the words of my mouth are just; none of them is crooked or perverse" (PROVERBS 8:7-8).

refuse to be a slanderer. I will use Philippians 4:8 as my conversation sifter. Therefore, whatever things are true, noble, just, pure, lovely, and of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy about someone, I comment only on these things.

Be humble. Don't brag about your position, possessions, people you know, or places you've traveled. Humility tops the chart as the most admired character trait. Pride and arrogance are the most detestable.

In becoming more fully your true self, you have to understand and embrace the less attractive qualities in yourself. The essential nature of the universe is the coexistence of opposite values. You cannot be brave if you do not have a coward inside you. You cannot be generous if you do not have a tight-fisted person inside you. You cannot be virtuous unless you also contain the capacity for evil.

dharma incluye todo aquello que sustenta la vida de manera natural: la felicidad, la verdad, el deber, la virtud, la admiración, la adoración, la veneración, el aprecio, la pasividad, el amor, el respeto a uno mismo.

We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.

We need knew knights, but without swords.

Modesty is the citadel of beauty.

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

Probably all laws are useless, for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

He who receives a favour must retain a recollection of it for all time to come; but he who confers should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid and ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred on him, and to talk of it, is little different from a reproach.

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

Virtue begins with understanding and is fulfilled by courage.

Our professional competence and pride should rest not alone in our possession of knowledge but as well in our ability to communicate it. Of course we shall carry on our research, and of course we shall applaud the colleague who 'produces,' but we shan't be happy if he offers that as a substitute for inspiring young people with a desire for knowledge, a sense of taste, and a regard for virtue.

The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

Virtue is praised, but hated. People run from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you have to keep your feet warm.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.