Quotes About Virtue

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

No fact is more firmly established than that lying is a necessity of our circumstances--the deduction that it is then a Virtue goes without saying. No virtue can reach its highest usefulness without careful and diligent cultivation--therefore, it goes without saying that this one ought to be taught in the public schools--even in the newspapers. What chance has the ignorant uncultivated liar against the educated expert?

Without doubt modesty is nothing less than a holy feeling;

You're never wrong to do the right thing.- Ben, The Intern. Mark Twain may have said it first

Why, you simple creatures, the weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.

It made him feel a little uncomfortable sometimes when he reflected that the good little boys always died. He loved to live, you know, and this was the most unpleasant feature about being a Sunday-school-book boy. He knew it was not healthy to be good.

Do right and you will be conspicuous.

Tom!, ¿cómo pudiste ser tan noble?

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

No fact is more firmly established than that lying is a necessity of our circumstances--the deduction that it is then a Virtue goes without saying.

Whereas I would argue that style is morality: morality detailed, configured, intensified. It's not in the mere narrative arrangement of good and bad that morality makes itself felt. It can be there in every sentence

Out of them all, Socrates is the hardest to deconstruct... Indeed, he may just be indeconstructible.

Twiss. Free of vice and gossip and idle tales." As the indicator arrow hit "B," Joseph switched to

To be good is noble; to teach others how to be good is nobler, & no trouble.

it's never wrong time to do the right thing

We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpentlike qualities is to be sentimental, anemic, and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses.

No one can pretend that because a people may be oppressed, every individual member is virtuous and worthy.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.

It is pretty difficult to imagine a single person having, simultaneously, the characteristics of the serpent and the dove, but this is what Jesus expects. We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

It is only goodness which gives extra...

I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.

I may be on the side of the Angels ,but don't think for one second that I am one of them.

and there was only one revolutionary virtue which he had not learned, the virtue of self-deception