Quotes About Virtue

When we have trained our brain to recall and apply biblical nonnegotiables, we are equipped to speak, act, and react in ways that honor God.

Sonsuz hayat sonsuz sab?r gerektirir. Yeterince uzun yaÅŸarsan, bugün ilgini çekiyorsa bugünün iyi olduÄŸunu düÅŸünebilirsin. Yanl?? veya doÄŸru, bütün ahlaki deÄŸerler, bütün erdemler yok olabilir.

Beauty is nothing without brains & heart.

The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the place of duty, welfare that of virtue, and self-defense that of punishment. Everyone must be able to prevail and to live according to ones own nature.

True virtue consists in the care for the common weal, it can only flourish where the commonwealth at the same time advances the interests of the individual, where he cannot damage the commonwealth without damaging himself.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Zealously she paid her debt to virtue and morality—all the more so because she had set about this a little late without ever thinking for the better half of her life that there would be such a price, but then, becoming convinced that it was unavoidable, she—one must do her justice—endeavored with an improbable commitment to pay the aforementioned debt and all interest that had accrued.

No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral.

I don't mind people going about unobtrusively doing good, but I can't stomach moral indignation.

Modesty alone doesn't prove a man a hero. But it's incontrovertible that immodesty makes him a bore.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing"; it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.

We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.

Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

In sanctification, there is never, under any circumstances, any room for self-pride or self-praise.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

In the majority of sane human lives there is no problem of sex at all; there is no problem of marriage at all; there is no problem of temperament at all; for all these problems are dwarfed and rendered ridiculous by the standing problem of being a moderately honest man and paying the butcher.

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.

the schoolmaster was one of those men for whom virtuous indignation was a necessity.

Women all have the same female pretentions and even the most virtuous among them like to convince themselves that they can tempt a man.

As everyone knows, people revert to virtuous ways when they are too old for their virtue to be endangered. The confessor was not deceived by any of these women who repented out of impotence or malice and were inclined to criticize in others the very aberrations of which they themselves had formerly been guilty.

Supravie?uim moral prin convingerea, pe care nici o mâr??vie comis? nu ne-o anuleaz?, c? suntem mai buni ca ceilal?i.