Quotes About Virtue

Though he recognized that there were many qualities of a successful lawyer, he believed this one virtue trumped all others. "However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

Es genügt ja nicht, Macht und Reichtum zu erlangen; die Menschen wollen tugendhaft erscheinen und sich tugendhaft fühlen.

Whatever his belief, Father Damien had acted on the fundamental dictates of a great love. Sacrifice had been his rule. He'd put others above himself and lived in the abyss of doubt rather than forsake those in need. Was doubt when coupled with devotion a greater virtue than simple faith?

There ought to be some mark by which to distinguish good people from bad.

Our hospital was clean. You have to hurry to see that kind of thing, move in at the beginning, the first few weeks, because maintenance isn't a French virtue, we have no taste for it, in fact, we're downright disgusting in that respect. We flopped on six metal beds, at random and by moonlight, the building was so new the electricity

Heaven grant me patience! Clothes are very important, said Anne severely

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something which you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy.

È molto più facile essere un eroe che un galantuomo. Eroi si può essere una volta tanto; galantuomini, si dev'esser sempre.

Among the innumerable books on Addy's shelves was one by Ernest Hemingway in which I found these words: 'What is moral is what you feel good after. What is immoral is what you feel bad after.

There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.

one could deduce that vice is often the manure of virtue

avarice is only the exaggeration of a virtue, and the virtues must be like budgets: a surplus is better than a deficit.

mas a avareza é apenas a exageração de uma virtude e as virtudes devem ser como os orçamentos: melhor é o saldo que o deficit.

If it hadn't been for our love affair, most likely Dona Placida would have ended up like so many other human creatures, from which it can be deduced that vice many times is manure for virtue. And that doesn't prevent virtue from being a fragrant and healthy bloom. My conscience agreed and I went to open the door for Virgilia.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuous in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Não se pode definir como virtude a matança dos próprios concidadãos, a traição aos amigos e a demonstração de falta de lealdade, de piedade, de consciência e de ideal moral: Essas práticas podem conquistar o poder ao príncipe, nunca a glória.

Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

Beware of pride and arrogance, Charles, for they may betray you.

If God's peace is in our hearts, we carry it with us, and it can be given to those around us, not by our own will or virtue, but by the Holy Spirit working through us. We cannot give what we do not have, but if the spirit blows through the dark clouds, and enters our hearts, we can be used as vehicles of peace, and our own peace will be thereby deepened. The more peace we give away, the more we have.

We knew the promise had never been safety, or that bad things would not happen if we were good and virtuous. The promise is only that God is in it with us, no matter what it is.

We do wrong, with all the best will in the world. And sometimes we do right without even knowing it.

For the opposite of sin is faith and never virtue, and we live in a world which believes that self-control can make us virtuous. But that's not how it works. How many men and women we have encountered, of great personal virtue and moral rectitude, convinced of their own righteousness, who have also been totally insensitive to the needs of others and sometimes downright cruel!

There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals

You'll never go wrong in doing what is right.