Quotes About Virtue

Many people with secondary greatness—that is, social recognition for their talents—lack primary greatness or goodness in their character. Sooner or later, you'll see this in every long-term relationship they have

Integrity includes but goes beyond honesty.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

When we value correct principles, we have truth—a knowledge of things as they are.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living." DAVID STARR JORDAN

Just as junk food and lack of exercise can ruin an athlete's condition, those things that are obscene, crude, or pornographic can breed an inner darkness that numbs our higher sensibilities and substitutes the social conscience of "Will I be found out?" for the natural or divine conscience of "What is right and wrong?

Stephen R. Covey

Many people with secondary greatness—that is, social recognition for their talents—lack primary greatness or goodness in their character.

Character Ethic taught that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.

I have no special virtue to make me resent him. One must have strength in order to judge the weakness of others. I am not so mighty." This

The Buddha encouraged people to "know for yourselves that certain things are unwholesome and wrong. And when you do, then give them up. And when you know for yourselves that certain things are wholesome and good, then accept them and follow them.

It is easy to get seduced by complexity; but there is virtue in simplicity too.

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others. —Confucius

An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that explains chaotic events and collective misfortunes in a way that flatters the virtue and competence of believers, while being vague or conspiratorial enough to withstand skeptical scrutiny.

The Moralization Gap is part of a larger phenomenon called self-serving biases. People try to look good. "Good" can mean effective, potent, desirable, and competent, or it can mean virtuous, honest, generous, and altruistic.

by conflating profligacy with evil and asceticism with virtue, the moral sense can sanctify pointless displays of sacrifice.

Sensing the necessity to be wise and honest in order to succeed, he flees vice, or at least his demeanor exhibits decency and seriousness so as not to arouse any adverse judgment on the part of present and future acquaintances

Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Love can wait to give; it is lust that can't wait to get.

Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.