Quotes About Virtue

La grandeza está en la virtud, no en la venganza

You think I didn't hate their pity, their forced kindness? And knowing that no matter what I did, how virtuous I was, or hardworking, I would never be beautiful. Not like her, the one who merely had to sit there to be adored. You wonder why I stabbed the blue eyes of my dolls with pins and pulled their hair out until they were bald? Life isn't fair. Why should I be?

It's hard to salvage jettisoned cargo and, if it is retrieved, it's usually irreparably damaged. And I fear that when you can afford to fish up the honor and virtue and kindness you've thrown overboard, you'll find they have suffered a sea change and not, I fear, into something rich and strange.

Pride & honor & truth & virtue & kindliness, he enumerated silkily. You are right, Scarlett. They aren't important when a boat is sinking. But look around you at your friends. Either they are bringing their boats ashore safely with cargoes intact or they are content to go down with all flags flying.

People generally report higher levels of stress, depression, and tension after watching TV. It seems that TV's main virtue is that it occupies the mind undemandingly.

Computers are idiots whose only virtue is that they can count up to two extremely fast.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

Gratitude is a flower that blooms in noble souls.

The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms, or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.

It is always the right time to do the right thing.

Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

Integrity is built by defeating the temptation to be dishonest; humility grows when we refuse to be prideful; and endurance develops every time you reject the temptation to give up.

Scoundrels [...] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [...] Scoundrels live a long time. The beautiful die young.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Spend more time building your character than trying to build your platform.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.