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Quotes About Virtue

The same strong susceptibilities which makes the personal impulses vivid and powerful are also the source from whence are generated the most passionate love of virtue and the sternest self-control.
~ John Stuart Mill
when we say of any one that he is generous. The word generosity expresses a certain state of mind, but being a term of praise, it also expresses that this state of mind excites in us another mental state, called approbation.
~ John Stuart Mill
we do not call anything justice which is not a virtue
~ John Stuart Mill
The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics of religion.
~ John Stuart Mill
In the long run the best proof of a good character is good actions.
~ John Stuart Mill
else desirable, he confounded all disinterested feelings which he found in himself, with the desire of ggeneralg happiness: just as some religious writers, who loved virtue for its own sake as much perhaps as men could do, habitually confounded their love of virtue with their fear of hell.
~ John Stuart Mill
Show and prove to the world, to angels and to God, that you are on the side of truth and right, of honesty, purity and integrity, and that you are for God in His kingdom.
~ John Taylor
Virtue is admirable, but boring.
~ John Twelve Hawks
praiseworthy and should be exercised by all" (#292).
~ John W., S.J. O'Malley
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.
~ John Webster
What! because we are poor Shall we be vicious?
~ John Webster
Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.
~ John Wesley
Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.
~ John Wesley
True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.
~ John Wesley
Good people avoid sin because they love goodness, Wicked people avoid sin because they fear punishment.
~ John Wesley
the partner of his guilt, should be hurled from the pinnacle of unsullied virtue, down to the lowest abyss of infamy and degradation: in fine, that all those females whom he had sought, apparently on account of their virtue, had, since his departure, thrown even the mask aside, and had not scrupled to expose the whole deformity of their vices to the public gaze.
~ John William Polidori
he had required, to enhance his gratification, that his victim, the partner of his guilt, should be hurled from the pinnacle of unsullied virtue, down to the lowest abyss of infamy and degradation:
~ John William Polidori
To do good in secret, and shun the world's applause, is the surest testimony of a virtuous heart and self-approving conscience.
~ John William Polidori
Horace once told me that laws were powerless against the private passions of the human heart, and only he who has no power over it, such as the poet or the philosopher, may persuade the human spirit to virtue.
~ John Williams
Ach, wie anständig finden wir uns doch, wenn wir keinen Anlass haben, unanständig zu sein!
~ John Williams
The halo that surrounds the head of the saint does not become visible till we know he has paid the rent.
~ John Wisdom
The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.
~ John Wooden
Failure. That is a word so little to our taste that many think it a virtue to claim that they never admit it. But blind stupidity is not one of the virtues; it is a weakness...
~ John Wyndham
Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside - to have a big hear and an open mind and a spectacular spleen.
~ Ellen DeGeneres