Quotes About Virtue

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age

one cannot be held forever to a less-than-honorable act, after a life of great integrity, just because of one moment of weakness.

Isn't suffering unearned by the victims precisely what is so morally repugnant about the unfolding crisis? If so, why make it a virtue?

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

Although Wesley was not a pacifist, he was deeply opposed to war, which he said was "a horrid reproach to the Christian name, yea, to the name of man, to all reason and humanity…When war breaks out, God is forgotten…So long as this monster stalks uncontrolled, where is reason, virtue, humanity? They are utterly excluded.

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.

If you believe, as I do, that the scope and range of presidential authority is great, that puts a lot of weight on the civic virtue and decency of the individual who holds the office.

It takes about four days of virtuous living to create a little weight loss. That also happens to be the time required to get used to eating less. In other words, if you can get past day three of a fitness regimen, things improve.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization.

To seek the highest good is to live well.

It is better to die well than to live badly.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us - and to maintain. That's because without humility, it's not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.

Prestige podcasts, like prestige television shows, tend to have an audience that believes itself literate, well-informed, and reasonable. Listening to podcasts, in this model, is a form of virtue.

If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank.

In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.

A woman should be seen by the luminosity of her grace and not heard shooting her mouth away about praising herself which is so not lady-like.

He preaches well that lives well.