Quotes About Virtue

Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That's why he inspires people and inspires me.

I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance.

When you do the right thing, but not to any particular person, we instinctively feel that we have earned some sort of pay back. Since no-one will do that for us, we opt for self-service reciprocation.

Your personal integrity, once established and earned, people don't have to think about it. They know. They know you. They know you'll do the right thing every time.

I believe whenever you're winning and doing the right thing, you're stats will be fine, and everything else will come in place.

I'm a firm believer if you do the right thing, the American people will notice.

What makes a man is when you go against your own instincts to do to the right thing.

I think you've still got to try to be good, day-to-day. You see a granny, you hold the door open for her. You just try to do the right thing. I don't know if that makes you a saint or the greatest guy in the world, but trying is a start.

I try to do the right thing. If you do what you know is right, and you're a good person, you might not win short-term all the time, and financial gains might not be there all the time, but ultimately, you can be pretty happy, and you can do some pretty good things in the world. Keep a positive outlook.

That's what I want to do with my life. Be a good person when all the lights are off. When everybody doesn't need to see you, shine and know that you know you did the right thing at the end of the day.

You want to try to always do the right thing and show kids the right way to live.

Put another way, if you don't educate your children for metaphysical truth and moral virtue, mainstream culture will do it for you. Absent shared commitment to these spiritual and moral verities, it is hard to see how we renew our families, our communities, and our country with an ethic of duty, self-restraint, stewardship, and putting the needs of people, not the state or corporations, first.

A virtuous society, by contrast, is one that shares belief in objective moral goods and the practices necessary for human beings to embody those goods in community. To

vivir «tras la virtud» no significa solo habitar en una sociedad llena de discrepancias a la hora de considerar virtuosa tal creencia o conducta, sino en una que además cuestiona que la virtud exista. En la sociedad de la posvirtud, los individuos están dotados del mayor grado de libertad de pensamiento y acción y la sociedad se convierte en «una colección de desconocidos que persiguen su interés bajo un mínimo de limitaciones».

If democratic majorities come to believe that transferring social control to governmental and private institutional elites is necessary to guarantee virtue and safety, then it will happen.

And classical liberals favor a more or less limited role for the government, while leftists believe that achieving their vision of justice and virtue requires a heavier state hand.

For Socrates, the goal of all human beings was arete.

Usually translated as 'goodness' or 'virtue'

It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.

En el mundo burgués en vías de constitución, el vicio mayor, el pecado por excelencia, no es ya el orgullo o la avidez, como en el mundo medieval, sino la ociosidad.

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)

La comicità ha una grande virtù: è un posto sicuro in cui ciò che è serio può rifugiarsi e sopravvivere.»

He wondered, with some annoyance, whether he would finally learn what he wanted to know, or if he would have in the end to content himself with what he already knew. He felt that, at his age, patience was ceasing to be a virtue and was becoming a luxury he could less and less afford.

Aristotle once said, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act,