Quotes About Virtue

To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech -- this is the greatest blessing.

To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen.

When I think of those who have influenced my life the most, I think not of the great but of the good.

You can be everything in life but the important thing is to be a good person.

No matter how you may excel in the art of Karate, and in your scholastic endeavors, nothing is more important than your behavior and your humanity as observed in daily life.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

Mr. Martell praises your qualities as a neighbor and comments not infrequently on your excellent virtue of attending strictly to your own business.

Great people have great values and great ethics.

could become occasionally tyrannical, and that democratic liberty would falter if citizens ceased to be engaged. But he also had faith that a virtuous and engaged citizenry—grounded in small communities—could, through deliberation, achieve a good in common that they could not know alone.

If God is really at the center of things and God's good future is the most certain reality, then the truly realistic course of action is to buck the dominant consequentialist ethic of our age - which says that we should act only if our action will most likely bring about good consequences - and simply, because we are people who embody the virtue of hope, do the right thing.

Each and every one of these brave souls standing with him would rather die fighting for virtue and beauty than surrender to a life without either.

They guard my chastity every waking minute as if it were purest gold. It's unbearable!

A good deed needs no excuse.

Drug addiction and alcoholism, depression and anxiety, accidental pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease. These conditions are believed to share a common etiology, the failure of virtue. Whatever their diagnosis, all Wellways patients have this in common: their troubles are seen to be, in part or in full, their own goddam fault.

That the good that we do might live on after us, while the evil lies interred with their bones.

Candide was an optimist, but you're a pessoptimist. That fact, I repsonded, Is a virtue that, above all others, distinguishes my people. But you, he criticized again, seem to be imitating Candide. Don't blame me for that. Blame our way of life that hasn't changed since Voltaire's day, except that El Dorado has now come to exist on this planet.

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