Quotes About Virtue

Es tan inhumano ser totalmente bueno como totalmente malvado. Lo importante es la elección moral.

Tanr? ne ister? Tanr? iyilik mi ister yoksa iyi olma seçeneÄŸini mi? KötülüÄŸü seçen bir insan, kendisine iyilik dayat?lm?? bir insandan baz? aç?lardan daha üstün olabilir mi? (syf. 84)

What does God want? Does God want woodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Mihi mori lucrum--For me to die is a gain. To die, murdered by the haters of Jesus Christ, would be my gain. All my fervent desires have always been to die in a hospital as a poor man, or on the scaffold as a martyr, murdered by enemies because of the most holy religion that we profess and preach. I should like to seal with my blood the virtues and truths which I have preached and taught.

He saw that as usual it would be better to be careful as for some years now he had found being good to be almost out of the question.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." —JOHN WOODEN

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. —MARCUS AURELIUS

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. —AESOP

Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart.

every vice might be forgiven in a man and in a son, though every virtue was expected from a woman, and especially from a daughter.

It seems to me that if a man can so train himself that he may live honestly and die fearlessly, he has done about as much as is necessary.

If one wants to keep one's self straight, one has to work hard at it, one way or the other.  I suppose it all comes from the fall of Adam.

The idea that political virtue is all on one side is both mischievous and absurd. We allow ourselves to talk in that way because indignation, scorn, and sometimes, I fear, vituperation, are the fuel with which the necessary heat of debate is maintained.

That is an opinion on which very much may be said on either side. It is strange how widely the world is divided on a subject which so nearly concerns us all, and which is so close beneath our eyes. Some think that we are quickly progressing towards perfection, while others imagine that virtue is disappearing from the earth.

never so solemn a hermit; but a bright face, a true trusting heart, a strong arm, and an humble mind, might do much in teaching those around him that men may be gay and yet not profligate, that women may be devout and yet not dead to the world.

Who doubts that? How many very bad things are there that we do! But if we were to attempt to reform all our bad ways at once, we should never do any good thing. I am not strong enough to put the world straight, and I doubt if you are." Such

At any rate, it is as easy to do that as to tell of the man who is one hour good and the next bad, who aspires greatly but fails in practice, who sees the higher but too often follows the lower course.

Dr Gwynne was the Deus ex machina who was to come down upon the Barchester stage, and bring about deliverance from these terrible evils. But how can melodramatic dénouements be properly brought about, how can vice and Mr Slope be punished, and virtue and the archdeacon be rewarded, while the avenging god is laid up with the gout?

A man in the right relies easily on his rectitude and therefore goes about unarmed.

Mrs. Harold Smith, whatever may have been her faults, could boast of this virtue — that she loved her brother. He was probably the only human being that she did love. Children she had none; and as for her husband, it had never occurred to her to love him. She had married him for a position; and being a clever woman, with a good digestion and command of her temper, had managed to get through the world without much of that unhappiness which usually follows ill-assorted marriages.

The fact is, he never was wrong. He couldn't go wrong. He lacked guile, and he feared God, — and a man who does both will never go far astray. I don't think he ever coveted aught in his life, — except a new case for his violoncello and somebody to listen to him when he played it.

Henrietta had been taught by the conduct of both father and mother that every vice might be forgiven in a man and in a son, though every virtue was expected from a woman, and especially from a daughter.

the triad of human perfection": knowledge, judgment, and character.

All brave things do good, even if we don't see it.