Quotes About Virtue

Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Pride is not the worst of sins. In fact, it's one of the most interesting ones.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

As was his language so was his life.

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

He who spares the wicked injures the good.

Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.

Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you.

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.

There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

What does reason demand of a man A very easy thing: to live in accord with his nature.

Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

These fools who haven't the slightest idea how to live the morals they espouse. These fools who proclaim themselves men of God, yet show not the slightest reverance to His word...Is it any different from a drunkard preaching temperance? A whore preaching modesty?