Quotes About Virtue

All men are great for they convey something through their deeds and while most of them do from their misdeeds!

The problem is good has a limit, bad None!

Ramo vigrahavan dharma

If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all and you must not be afraid.

There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for a world where orphans are not poor and buildings comply with decent fire codes.

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

Find the best in everybody... you might have to wait a long time, sometimes years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out. (p. 22)

people will show you their good side. Almost everybody has a good side. Just keep waiting. It will come out.

Almost everybody has a good side.

Tenacity is a virtue, but it's not always crucial for everyone to observe how hard you work at something.

A person without character is just as body without soul.

our heart slowly takes fire, our soul feels desires for virtue which it had not hitherto experienced, the mysteries of faith appear more luminous to us, bit by bit the world and its hopes vanish, and the longing for the good things of Heaven, which seemed to have been dozing within us, awakens with new fervor.

In the Middle East, optimism is a virtue; realism – a duty.

The final mark of a saint is not perfection, but lived virtue. It is the striving for holiness throughout the arc of a life that makes a saint.

Rational self-interest is always what morality boils down to.

For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with arms meant to be used by intelligence and virtue, which he may use for the worst ends.

Omul, atunci can e desavarsit, este cel mai bun dintre fiinte, dar atunci cand e lipsit de lege si dreptate, devine cel mai rau dintre toate, caci nedreptatea care dispune de arme este cea mai primejdioasa; iar omul este inzestrat la nastere cu arme menite a fi fosite cu inteligenta si virtute, dar pe care el le poate pune in slujba scopurilor celor mai rele.

Intelligence is not a moral category.

There's never any issues with Colby 'Chaos' Covington. I always do the right things.

I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

It is not important to have a big chest. But you should have a heart in your chest.

Most superheroes are painted with a specific moral objective that makes them who they are. And that moral objective influences everything they do, so there's an expectation for what you're going to see out of a certain character.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.