Quotes About Virtue

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. . . let us be above such transparent egotism.

suppression of doubt contributes to overconfidence in a group where only supporters of the decision have a voice. The main virtue of the premortem is that it legitimizes doubts.

TO BE HAPPY, BE VIRTUOUS. THERE ARE ONLY TWO REASONS TO EVER DO ANYTHING; TO BE HAPPY, AND TO HELP OTHER PEOPLE BE HAPPY. ALL VIRTUE LIES IN THE SECOND HALF OF THAT, IN WORKING FOR OTHERS, IN PROTECTING THE WEAK FROM THE STRONG.

An avowed anti-Catholic, Maurice Maeterlinck, the twentieth-century Belgian philosopher and playwright, weighed in with: "An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards. —DIOGENES

A man who strives after goodness in all his acts is sure to come to ruin, since there are so many men who are not good.

To really succeed in whatever is the business of your choice, you have to come to understand and utterly absorb into your being the fundamentally true idea that your activities in your business are virtuous and moral, provided of course that you conduct your business affairs honestly and honorably. Absorb this lesson into your heart and into your soul, and you will have overcome a major hurdle on your road to financial achievement.

Dans ce monde, il faut être un peu trop bon pour l'être assez.

Così scoprì la virtù paradossale della lettura, che è quella di astrarci dal mondo per trovargli un senso.

He who lives an immoral life dies an immoral death - Corsican proverb

Patience was not an American virtue.

The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness.

Whatever makes men good christians, makes them good citizens.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

La mayor parte de los hombres encuentran dificil la virtud. Les resulta mas simple sentir miedo.

Pride and humility, just like darkness and light, have a hard time hanging out together. Actually, without humility, we have very little chance of sustained influence. When

And character is not merely rare, it is hard to detect soon enough. Although nothing brings it out like matrimony.