Quotes About Virtue

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

Youth leaders, are you holding aloft our standards, or have you compromised them for the lowest common denominator in order to appease the deceived or vile within the Church? Are the dances and music in your cultural halls virtuous, lovely, praiseworthy, and of good report (Articles of Faith 13), or do they represent a modern Sodom with short skirts, loud beat, strobe lights, and darkness?

Some leaders may be honest and good but unwise in legislation they choose to support. Others may possess wisdom but be dishonest and unvirtuous. We must be concerted in our desires and efforts to see men and women represent us who possess all three of these qualities.

It is more difficult for the poor to be virtuous. -The Cripple

Virtue and wealth seldom go together. The greatest criminals are also the wealthiest men." -The Cripple

Was he the epitome of virtue because he was poor? How had it been in the village? There was foul gossip and cussedness anywhere in the world where small men had to think of their stomachs first before thinking about others." -Istak

Virtue and wealth sometimes go together.

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

It seldom happens that a man, though extolled as a saint, is really without blemish; or that another, though reviled as a devil, is really without humanity.

Doubt afflicts the good, not the bad.

The successful are those who can be saved from their own selfishness.

The essence of all human rights is the equality of the entire human race, which the Qur'?n assumed, affirmed, and confirmed. It obliterated all distinctions among men except goodness and virtue (taqw?): The reason the Qur'?n emphasizes essential human equality is that the kind of vicious superiority which certain members of this species assert over others is unique among all animals. This is where human reason appears in its most perverted forms.

The essence of all human rights is the equality of the entire human race, which the Qur'?n assumed, affirmed, and confirmed. It obliterated all distinctions among men except goodness and virtue (taqw?)

La misma acción puede ser horrible hoy y estupenda mañana, según quién la lleve a cabo; en la personalización continua del español, la calidad del hombre es la que determina la gravedad del pecado y no al revés.

Adev?rata for?? ÅŸi putere, Sempronio, nu stau în a face r?u cuiva ÅŸi nici în a-l p?gubi, ci dimpotriv?, în a-i fi de folos ÅŸi a-i vindeca r?nile, dar, mai ales, în a nutri gânduri curate

La limitación, tanto de la inteligencia como de la voluntad, hace posible el ejercicio desviado de la libertad, en la elección del mal en cuanto bien aparente;

There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.

The mercy of God does not depend on human virtue for its fulfillment.

When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns it's back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.

While mankind tends toward evil, the legislators yearn for good; while mankind advances toward darkness, the legislators aspire for enlightenment; while mankind is drawn toward vice, the legislators are attracted toward virtue. Since they have decided that this is the true state of affairs, they then demand the use of force in order to substitute their own inclinations for those of the human race.

As long as these ideas prevail, it is clear that the responsibility of government is enormous. Good fortune and bad fortune, wealth and destitution, equality and inequality, virtue and vice – all then depend upon political administration.

What does it profit us that a great man, even a God, should promulgate moral laws, if the minds of men, steeped in error, will constantly mistake vice for virtue, and virtue for vice?

François Goyot de Pitavals

Here it is wished, as elsewhere, that women possess merit and virtue. But nature would have had to make them thus, for the upbringing they are given is in such opposition to the goal proposed that it appears to me to be the great masterpiece of French inconsequence.