Quotes About Virtue

She thought of the world's code that worshipped white lies as an act of mercy—she felt a stab of revulsion against that code..

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

Virtue is the giving of undeserved.

One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability. If that is right, then we'd better start slaughtering one another, because there isn't any right at all in the world!

The world is ours, whenever we choose to claim it, by virtue and grace of the fact that ours is the Morality of Life.

You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well.

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best.

A woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person." —QUINTILIAN

A corrupt people would not long remain free. "He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue," he concluded.

Deeply idealistic — a moral people, Adams held, would elect moral leaders — he believed virtue the soul of democracy. To have a villainous ruler imposed on you was a misfortune. To elect him yourself was a disgrace.

Kazanmak bir insan?n güçlü olduÄŸunu deÄŸil terbiyeden yoksun olduÄŸunu gösteriyordu.

Du bist nicht deshalb mächtig, weil du stark bist, Christopher. Du bist mächtig, weil du gut bist.

Too many are trying to conquer higher weaknesses such as procrastination, impatience or pride while still being slaves to their appetites. If we can't control the body and its appetites, how can we control our tongues, or overcome the emotions or anger, envy, jealousy, or hatred?

We can actually live out the trials and temptations of the day before they come. We can in prayer deal with all our unrighteous aspirations, selfishness, perverse inclinations, impatience, anger, procrastination. This is a form of spiritual creation.

No man can observe you as I have observed you and not know that it was a matter of conscience with you, but I am afraid, my friend, that it is one of the blunders of virtue. The

The girl who played Gwendolen stood out like a good deed in a naughty world.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a tremendous cost.

You've called your carelessness love and made a virtue of irresponsibility.

What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger! the man in black laughed.

Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful

Stay humble and inherit greatness, wise and inherit eternal life

Good things happen to good people.

If you want self-esteem." "Do estimable acts" ~ V, from A Piece of Cake: Memoir