Quotes About Virtue

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

A lot of the emotions we portray are universal themes that resonate with everyone, so the fact that people feel invested in our partnership is truly remarkable.

No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

If Mother Theresa went to Atlantic City, I don't think she'd start playing Blackjack.

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

I do believe that when you are a good person, good things will happen to you.

I think good things happen to good people.

When you're a good person, good things happen to you.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

O thou Sun, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintance of good men, but never hear anything of bad ones, nor they of me.

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap!

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

Of a thousand people, someone's not a good guy.

Frontiers; what romance! Not all the nagging douanes and impatient queues of passengers could spoil it. Say frontier, frontier, frontier, ten times, and the word, unlike most words so treated, still retains a meaning. Love, hate, friendship, virtue, vice, God - these may become as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals, but frontiers remain.

The steadfast behavior that could turn the head or melt the heart of Fortune was embodied in the Roman concept of virtus (from the Latin vir, the "man of true manliness"), a cultural value encompassing toughness, bravery, and a never-say-die willingness to combat adversity.

His students were intended to become a caste of capable citizens and inspired political leaders, men who were, as he hoped, "fit for the management of public and private business."36 Above all, he wished to create what he called the vir bonus dicendi peritus, the "good man skilled in speaking"37—someone who was both articulate and virtuous, and who used his oratorical powers for the good of his society.

The hypocrite is against sin in other people. The godly man is against sin anywhere but, first and foremost, against sin in himself.

lock yourself into a virtuous path.

Evil is not likely to result when people firmly believe that ends do not justify means. If they evaluate their methods by the same lofty standards by which they judge their goals and purposes, evil will be held in check.

Loving what is right is different from hating what is wrong and feeling right about it.

No dejes apagar el entusiasmo, virtud tan valiosa como necesaria; trabaja, aspira, tiende siempre hacia la altura