Quotes About Virtue

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

None but the brave deserve the fair.

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

We may draw good outof evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest.

If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

The great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and to continually make a new man of himself.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall.

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or not.

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if He ever had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.

Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

By his deeds we know a man.

What most counts is not to live, but to live aright.

The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue.

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.

When thou doest alms, do not let thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.