Quotes About Virtue

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.

the wicked find it a consolation to carp at the good, supposing the guilt of sin to be less, in proportion as the number of those who commit it is greater.

We must cast away by any contrivance, and cut out by fire and sword and contrivances of all kinds, disease from the body, ignorance from the soul, luxury from the belly, sedition from the state, discord from the family, excess from all things alike.

It is no easy task to throw one's rank into the shade by one's virtue, or to gain the affection of men who are forced to yield you precedence.

The words of Plato in the third book of the Republic are as follows: " Truth, said Socrates, is to be specially cultivated.

glory follows virtue as its shadow; and deserting those who seek it, it seeks those who despise it.

Envy always follows in the track of virtue: as Horace says, it is ever the mountain top that is smitten by the lightning.

The rude and simple brother must not suppose himself a saint just because he knows nothing; and he who is educated and eloquent must not measure his saintliness merely by his fluency.

Many people will profess faithfulness, but few will demonstrate it. The virtue of faithfulness is often costly, and few people are willing to pay the price. But for the godly person, faithfulness is an absolutely essential quality of his character, regardless of what it might cost.

Holiness and usefulness are linked together.

To say a person is morally bankrupt is to say he or she is completely devoid of any decent moral qualities.

If you stop and think about it, you will realize that most godly character traits can only be developed through adversity.

All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.

In situations where there are no real feasible solutions to a problem, the gathering and publication of performance data serves as a form of virtue signaling. There is no real progress to show, but the effort demonstrated in gathering and publicizing the data satisfies a sense of moral earnestness. In lieu of real progress, the progress of measurement becomes a simulacrum of success.

Being good does make a difference. You will not receive praise or payment for it, and other people will mistake your goodness for weakness, but it resonates among people you won't even meet.

The courage of the authoritarian character is essentially a courage to suffer what fate or its personal representative or "leader" may have destined him for. To suffer without complaining is his highest virtue—not the courage of trying to end suffering or at least to diminish it. Not to change fate, but to submit to it, is the heroism of the authoritarian character.

Ich warte auf den Sieg der Anständigkeit, dann könnte ich mich zur Verfügung stellen.

Der Mensch ist gut, hat man gesagt. Nun, vielleicht ist das richtig. Doch man darf es ihm nicht zu leicht machen, dem guten Menschen. Sonst kann es plötzlich passieren, daß er schlecht wird.

Nauda boj? raksturu.

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea...

Too much honor destroys a man quicker than too much of any other fine quality.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.