Quotes About Virtue

Henry never attempted to pester her when she was thus. His attitude was Asquithian, and he knew she appreciated him for his patience. She did not know he was learning that virtue from her father. "Relax, son," Atticus had told him in one of his rare comments on her. "Don't push her. Let her go at her own speed. Push her and every mule in the county'd be easier to live with.

Pametni ljudi nikad se ne ponose svojom darovitoš?u.

People in their right minds never take pride in their talents,' said Miss Maudie.

Chi ha una mente saggia non si inorgoglisce delle proprie doti

As pessoas que estão no seu perfeito juízo nunca se orgulham dos seus talentos.

Las personas sensatas no se enorgullecen de sus talentos.

Orang yang berakal sehat tak pernah berbangga dengan bakatnya. Miss Maudie

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

You. What is the moral difference, if any, between the soldier and the civilian? The difference, I answered carefully, lies in the field of civic virtue. A soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life. The civilian does not.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and wants to do the right thing, then there are certain ways that any obstacle can be overcome.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

If I wanted to do wrong, I could not.

A mark of stupidity is a belief that one party is totally virtuous and correct on the issues while the other is evil and always wrong.

People are stubborn about what they perceive to be the right thing or the wrong thing, and it takes a long time to filter this human condition. There's a waiting period until people catch up. But if you have patience - which it takes when someone thinks differently from you - everybody always catches up. That patience is a wonderful virtue.

I've seen countless situations where I've been around him where he always does the right thing, 100 percent of the time. Tom Izzo would never do the wrong thing. And anybody that thinks other than that, they don't know Tom Izzo. I know him.

Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of wrongdoing.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

I just think there is a right way to do things, and I don't think two wrongs make a right.

Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.

Erudition - that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic - is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.