Quotes About Virtue

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch.

If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a man my son.

stars are the spirits of good men

Because "we human beings are imaginative by nature, we cannot choose to live by the routine of the ant-heap. If deprived of the imagery of virtue" — imaginative depictions of the truly good life — "we will seek out the imagery of vice.

Ordinary human laws are the means -- however imperfect -- by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

Being just may not always be easy but it's always required.

Thrift is not an affair of the pocket, but an affair of character.

No es cierto, en general, respecto a todo lo que el alma está dispuesta a hacer y soportar, que cuando preside la sabiduría, todo conduce a su bien; así como todo a su desgracia, si aquella falta?

To those men who say that women from "good families" must come into the world of cinema, I have this question: What is it that you mean by "good?" A woman, who honestly puts her wares on display, and sells them without an intention to cheat, is such a woman not virtuous?

Hast thou not perfect excellence, ?tis best To keep thy tongue in silence, for ?tis this Which shames a man; as lightness does attest The nut is empty, nor of value is.

No one hath come into the world for a continuance save him who leaveth behind him a good name.*

?yilik demek kimseye kötülü?ü dokunmamak de?il, kötülük yapacak cevheri içinde ta??mamak demektir.

Vigilance helps grow a person character

If you want an element of spirituality to enter your life, the first thing you must do is drop these rigid ideas of virtue and vice, and learn to look at life just the way it is.

que le même homme peut être très énergétique en même temps que doux

Blicke in dein Inneres! Im Innern ist die Quelle des Guten, eine unversiebare Quelle, wenn du immer nachgräbst.

El movimiento de los átomos corre hacia arriba, hacia abajo, circularmente. Pero el curso de la virtud no está sujeto a ninguno de estos giros. Tiene, más bien, un no sé qué divino, de modo que hace su jornada por una órbita difícil e incomprensible.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders' ignorance of what is good or evil.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.