Quotes About Virtue

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

It is better to reveal a weakness than allow oneself be suspected of a vice.

Freedom comes from moral self-control. There is no other way to achieve it.

A person without Character is like a beautiful flower with no fragrance, IMHO. Beauty, knowledge and wealth become worthless in the absence of Character. Life loses its meaning forever, once the Character is lost or compromised.....just like a beautiful flower that has no fragrance.

Es importante recordar que cuando se pierde la riqueza, nada se pierde; cuando se pierde la salud, se pierde algo; pero cuando se pierde el carácter, todo está perdido. Mi amigo, llevar su vida con la verdad, la honestidad y el carácter -siempre!

Honesty requires Courage and Strength - the reason why you can't expect it from cowards. Honesty is also an expensive proposal, so you mustn't expect it from cheap people. Honesty is therefore limited exclusively to people with Character, Courage and Strength.

Lo más inteligente es no tomar decisiones precipitadas y negativas cuando las circunstancias están en desacuerdo, y te encuentras a nadar contra la corriente. Tomar decisiones negativas en medio negatividad es tan tonto como la tala de árboles durante la temporada de invierno severo y fuertes tormentas. El tiempo se mueve con rapidez, y hasta brota la temporada de primavera. ten paciencia! La paciencia es la virtud más grande, sobre todo en no tan buenas situaciones.

True Philanthropist is selfless at heart, and doesn't let her/his left hand know what the right hand is doing; so that the noble act of giving remains an absolute secret. Self-promotion of charitable acts is against the true spirit of Philanthropy, in my view.

you have to be godly to be wise ...

We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.

the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

If you try to give people knowledge, and you haven't trained them in character, based on faith, they will become intellectual reprobates.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.

Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.

I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.

That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.