Quotes About Virtue

You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, you are only loitering and sluggard.

HOBBES:Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.

If you need someone to explain morality to you, then you likely have little of it to draw from.

INTEGRITY...Choosing your thoughts, words and actions based on what's right rather than what's in it for you.

What is GRACE?An individual, inspiring and virtuous impulse, that streams the spirit with life!

Virtue ethicists, taking their cue from Aristotle, define moral behavior as behavior that expresses virtues, which are principles that lead to excellence in human life. Some virtues derive from others, but there's no single principle from which all virtues unfold.

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

Inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

Love Virtue, she alone is free,She can teach ye how to climbHigher than the sphery chime;Or, if Virtue feeble were,Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

Abash'd the Devil stood,And felt how awful goodness is, and sawVirtue in her shape how lovely.

Her virtue and the conscience of her worth,That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.

Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin Surprise thee, and her black attendant, Death.

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

Virtue could see to do what Virtue wouldBy her own radiant light, though sun and moonWere in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's selfOft seeks to sweet retired solitude,Where, with her best nurse Contemplation,She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings.

Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity:She that has that, is clad in complete steel.

And out of good still to find means of evil.

So absolute she seemsAnd in herself complete, so well to knowHer own, that what she wills to do or say,Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

He who hates vice hates men.

Concern yourself with what is right rather than who is right.

Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That's why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith.

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.