Quotes About Virtue

The price of peace is righteousness.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride.

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

We should be led by principles and morals and not by men.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

I should not deal with things that aren't founded on ethical principles, because that's not who I am as a human being.

There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good.

Faith idles when character shrivels.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.

Thomas Aquinas was asked, "What must I do to be a saint?" and he said, "Will it." Be a saint, and you'll unleash the power of grace and holiness.

The Catholic Church's job is to call people to sanctity and to equip them for living saintly lives. Its mission is not to produce nice people, or people with hearts of gold, or people with good intentions; its mission is to produce saints, people of heroic virtue… To dial down the demands because they are hard, and most people have a hard time realizing them, is to compromise the very meaning and purpose of the Church.

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

You are only what you are when no one is looking.

It cannot be said too often that in the New Testament, the opposite of sin is not virtue, it is faith.

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

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

The tenement house is the enemy of modesty, the enemy of virtue, the enemy of patriotism. Home is where the virtues grow. I would like to see the law so that every home, to a small amount, should be free not only from sale for debts, but should be absolutely free from taxation, so that every man could have a home. Then we will have a nation of patriots.

In this connection we might ask how God can be moral or good unless he believes in some Being superior to himself?

I believe that all actions that tend to the well-being of sentient beings are virtuous and moral.