Quotes About Virtue

No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Pleasure will have much to teach him.He will not be afraid of the destructive act;one half of the house must be pulled down.This way he will grow virtuously into knowledge.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

In everything regarding your salvation and the attainment of mercy, you are dependent on your soul. Thus no sacrifice can be too great for you. If your virtues hinder you from salvation, discard them, since they have become evil to you. The slave to virtue finds the way as little as the slave to vices.

If your virtues hinder you from salvation, discard them, since they have become evil to you. The slave to virtue finds the way as little as the slave to vices.

If you fulfill the pattern that is peculiar to yourself, you have loved yourself, you have accumulated and have abundance; you bestow virtue then because you have luster.

Any of us can see, of course, that there is a conflict in our lives between adventure and discipline, or evil and virtue, or freedom and security. But these are only phrases we use to describe an ambivalence that troubles us, and to which we never seem able to find an answer.

there is a conflict in our lives between adventure and discipline, or evil and virtue, or freedom and security. But these are only phrases we use to describe an ambivalence that troubles us, and to which we never seem able to find an answer.

You ought to get a bumper sticker that says, 'What would Dudley Do-Right Do?' Call it W-W-D-D-R-D. that has a ring to it. (Gov. Rulon to Joe Pickett)

that things like 'onor, and justice, and love are the most important things in the world and that it's up to each and every one of us to always try to be the best person we can possibly be.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.

Segismundo; que aun en sueños no se pierde el hacer bien.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

But we have arrived at a glistening, smug day when nobody much sins, and those that do are prone to call it something else.

Yo, señor, no soy malo, aunque no me faltarían motivos para serlo.

That in the end, beauty does not matter. Character is more important.

I consider myself a good Christian. I go to church every Sunday. I do charitable work. I am kind to children and animals. I don't lie, cheat, or steal. I believe I am a good person. And I will not be thought sinful simply because I take pleasure in the man I love.

I so much despise a man who blows his own horn, that I go to the other extreme.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.