Quotes About Virtue

A good man is not a perfect man; a good man is an honest man, faithful and unhesitatingly responsive to the voice of God in his life.

Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms.

Sirs, up and be doing. Press toward the mark. Add to your faith, virtue; to virtue, knowledge; to knowledge, temperance; to temperance, patience; to patience, godliness, that you be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Be you therefore steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of our Lord. And if you do these things, you will never fall (1 Cor. 15:58; 2 Peter 1:5-8, 10).

Let every lust be mortified, every duty performed, every grace exercised.

A goal, in itself, is an empty thing; all the virtue lies in the moving toward the goal.

Another commandment, really an application of the commandment to love, is the prohibition against judging our brother's sins (Matthew 7:1-5). This is not a prohibition of discernment and virtuous discrimination, but the warning against identifying our neighbor by his sins and the pretense of being without sin ourselves.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels." —Augustine

Her integrity was on the line.

Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

God forgives and forgets sins, but He never forgets a good deed.

To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.

If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Do what is right, and the reward will be immediate and multitudinous. Think what is right, and your authority will grow.

People are basically good.

The way men live is so far removed from the way they ought to live that anyone who abandons what is for what should be pursues his downfall rather than his preservation.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

Virtue is harder to be got than a knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.

Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.

Man is frail. Man is prone to fallacies, errors, vice, and greed, but good iron never fails. Combine hard iron with a good man and you have the makings of a legend or a myth.

If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn't show yet.

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It is your character, and your character alone, that will make your life happy or unhappy.