Quotes About Virtue

The Colonel was far too firmly married and full of military honours to be a threat to Phryne's virtue, or what remained of it, so she agreed.

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

God is not a symbol of goodness. Goodness is a symbol of God.

Right is right, even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong about it.

The Gospel never has a better name than when it goes forth in a manner beyond reproach.

Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that what the virtue of wit contained was the vice of scorn.

People who read D.H. Lawrence suspect that the forbidden is not necessarily without its virtue, and so are easily persuaded that the forbidden and the virtuous are one and the same.

The problem with a lot of people is that what they think is a virtue is actually a vice in disguise. It's much easier to convince yourself that you're reasonable and civilised, than soft and weak, isn't it?

Displaying good character as a means of avoiding retribution after life is not just problematic but inherently selfish.

was reassuring after a day like they'd had, to be reminded that there were good things in the world, and good people, simple food cooked well, strangers sharing their kindness indiscriminately. Dan had been outside that virtuous circle himself for most of his adult life, but he was grateful to be inside it now.

The highest virtue here may be least in another world.

A generous person is close to Allah, close to Paradise, close to people, and far from Hell. However, a miserly person is far from Allah, far from Paradise, far from people, but close to Hell. Allah loves more an ignorant man who is generous than a worshipper who is miserly. (Tirmidhi.) We

In the absence of men all women are chaste.

Looks aren't everything. Looks fade, but character remains.

There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.

Anyone who needs a reward to be good isn't good. They just like rewards. Good people do the right thing because it's the right thing to do.

Clean up your acts, if you want the attention of good Women, start acting like good Men.

The more moral your life is the more you live for long ceteris paribus

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

James 4:6: "God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

Free people can handle liberty because they have developed character through exercising the restraint dictated by their virtues. They are not the slaves of their physical desires; rather, they train their bodies to behave in order to fulfill the higher desires created by their own virtues.

Hope, like every virtue, is a choice that becomes a habit that becomes spiritual muscle memory.