Quotes About Virtue

Despise evil and embrace everything that is good and virtuous.

6"How enriched you are when you crave righteousness!h For you will be surrounded with fruitfulness.i

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Others spoke piously since, being old, they could follow no course but virtue.

Given special powers, anyone can do anything. It takes away all the merit of achievement. It's like King Arthur's magic sword. As long as he wielded it, no one could defeat him. Well, that means that the virtue was in the sword, not in him. Even I could be a great knight with a sword like that. I'd be much more impressed by Arthur if he'd fought his battles with an ordinary sword, and still won them.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

She laughed and said not to confuse pride with nobleness.

You may rejoice to think yourselves secure, You may be grateful for the gift divine, That grace unsought which made your black hearts pure And fits your earthborn souls in Heaven to shine. But is it sweet to look around and view Thousands excluded from that happiness, Which they deserve at least as much as you, Their faults not greater nor their virtues less?

Many people do not advance in the Christian life, because they get stuck in penances and particular spiritual exercises. They neglect the love of God, which is the goal. This could be seen plainly by their works, and was the reason why we see so little solid virtue. The spiritual life is neither an art nor a science. To arrive at union with God all one needs is a heart resolutely determined to apply itself to nothing but Him, do nothing but for His sake, and to love Him only.

When an occasion arose to exercise some virtue, he committed himself to God, saying, "Lord, I cannot do this unless You enable me." Then he received more than sufficient strength.

The beautiful seems right By force of Beauty, and the feeble wrong Because of weakness.

As if true pride Were not also humble!

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

Properly understood, then, the scriptures counsel us to be virtuous not because romantic love is bad, but precisely because romantic love is so good. It is not only good; it is pure, precious, even sacred and holy.

Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.

Sometimes," Trumbo said to me once, "I think what a terrible state we're in when a man can be considered honorable simply because he isn't a shit.

Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.

The good man wins a victory and then stops; he will not go on to acts of violent winning, he boasteth not, he will not triumph, he shows no arrogance. He wins because he cannot choose. After his victory he will not be overbearing.

Knowledge can get you power. But character can get you respect.

Self-will is the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws. A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I hold absolutely sacred—the law in himself, his own "will." What does self-willed mean? Does it not mean "having a will of one's own?" The human herd instinct demands adaptation and subordination—but for his highest honor man elects not the meek, the pusillanimous, the supine, but precisely the self-willed man, the heroes.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect

every person who walks uprightly, does the best that he can, overcomes the world, rises above carnality, and walks in paths of righteousness will have his acts and his deeds sealed and approved by the Holy Spirit.

compassion is a wonderful virtue but don't waste it on those undeserving.