Quotes About Virtue

Jesus' sinlessness should not be equated with emotionlessness.

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

the Fundamentalists' crusade. (Outrageous! from the leonine gentleman.) They were mild enough now; they spoke in the name of virtue; but give them rope, and there would be a new Inquisition, a new hunting of witches.

To be "intellectual" or "artistic" or, in their own word, to be "highbrow," is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.

He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.

Mi querido Watson, no estoy de acuerdo con los que opinan que la modestia es una virtud. Para la mente lógica, todo debería verse exactamente tal como es, y subestimarse es algo tan lejano de la realidad como exagerar nuestras propias facultades.

He that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

Vertraue einem edlen Charakter mehr als einem Eid.

In time you will know this well: For time, and time alone, will show the just man, though scoundrels are discovered in a day.

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist

I, for one, prize less The name of king than deeds of kingly power; And so would all who learn in wisdom's school.

The working of the mind discover oft Dark deeds in darkness schemed, before the act. More hateful still the miscreant who seeks When caught, to make a virtue of a crime.

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

The good befriend themselves.

Of happiness the chiefest part IS a wise heart

Say, can the mind be noble, where the stream Of gratitude is withered from the spring?

If thou dost count a virtue stubbornness, Unschooled by reason, thou art much astray.

Sei abile con la lingua. Ma non conosco nessun uomo onesto che trovi parole belle per ogni circostanza

sólo el tiempo muestra al hombre justo, mientras que podrías conocer al perverso en un solo día.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

The great can never do harm when grasped in their greatness.

The good is by virtue my willing it. Otherwise it has no existence.

So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.