Quotes About Virtue

Through the steel of discipline, you will forge a character rich with courage and peace. Through the virtue of will, you are destined to rise to life's highest ideal and live within a heavenly mansion filled with all that is good, joyful and vital. Without them, you are lost like a mariner without a compass, one who eventually sinks with his ship.

Good people strengthen themselves ceaselessly. Confucius

As Emerson said: 'Character is higher than intellect.

Anyone can become angry—that's easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not easy," taught Aristotle.

You become undefeatable in the world by what you do when no one's watching.

For the failure to perform right action means the triumph of the mean-spirited, the ungenerous and those who would rather view everyone in darkness than to see all shine brightly.

Una carencia desconocida jamás podrá convertirse en una virtud.

Character is higher than intellect

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as to think.' Your

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it," observed David Starr Jordan.

philosophy of Marcus Aurelius and some of the work of Seneca.

You will never go wrong in doing what's right, my young friend

The Golden Mean Doctrine, which states that virtuous behavior requires one to walk the middle ground between asceticism and indulgence. To take the path of moderation between excess and deprivation. To avoid being an extremist in any dimension of one's life. Here's a maxim that's worth remembering: Restriction promotes addiction.

Una buena acción, por pequeña que sea, pone en marcha una buena consecuencia.

The beauty of things means virtue and value in them It is in the beholder's eye, not the worlds? Certainly. It is the human mind's translation of the transhuman Intrinsic glory. It means the world is sound.

Smith emphasized that trust, responsibility and accountability exist only in a society that respects them, and only where the spontaneous fruit of human sympathy is allowed to ripen. It is where sympathy, duty and virtue achieve their proper place that self-interest leads, by an invisible hand, to a result that benefits everyone.

Western democracies did not create the virtue of citizenship; on the contrary, they grew from it. Nothing is more evident in The Federalist than the public spirit that it puts in play, in opposition to factions, cabals and private scheming. As

The greatest modern philosopher was moved by nothing more than by duty. His life, in consequence, was unremarkable. For Kant, the virtuous man is so much the master of his passions as scarcely to be prompted by them, and so far indifferent to power and reputation as to regard their significance as nothing beside that of duty itself.

Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy and goodness. Trust me in all things.

While it shows the gods as no better than the rest of us, she said, at least, it shows them as no worse. See here the sources of human morality.

Who would want to enter the soiled Temple of Justice, wherein lies the corpse of justice, slain by her very guardians? And now her killers make mock of the sacred process, selling replicas of her blind virtue to the highest bidder.

Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instrument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind us no longer.

When someone asked if he had ever doubted the North's final victory, he shot back, "Never for a moment." He quoted Seward, saying "that there was always just enough virtue in this republic to save it; sometimes none to spare, but still enough to meet the emergency, and he agreed with Mr. Seward in this view.

that there was always just enough virtue in this republic to save it; sometimes none to spare, but still enough to meet the emergency, and he