Quotes About Virtue

El sentimentalismo de arriba hacia abajo atenúa los riesgos de las condiciones del privilegio, al hacer que las obligaciones de actuar sean sobre todo paliativas, cosa de no cambiar los términos fundamentales que organizan el poder sino de ir en pos de las elevadas pretensiones de sensibilidad, virtud y conciencia vigilantes.

Being humble, I think, is one of the most underrated character traits around.

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life--the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should.

Every bad person is a little good. And every good person is a little bad.

Christian children all must be mild, obedient, good as He.

?yilik eden mükafat bekliyorsa, tefecidir.

A man who has not come up against the barrier of some physical impossibility that affects his whole life ( impotence, dyspepsia, asthma, imprisonment, etc.) does not know what suffering is. In fact, such causes bring him to a decision of renouncement: a despairing attempt to make a virtue out of what is, in any case, inevitable. Could anything be more contemptible?

Insofar as the Ultimate, or the true nature of being is concerned, there are neither Buddhas nor demons. He who frees himself from fear and hope, evil and virtue, will realize the insubstantial and groundless nature of confusion. Samsara will then appear to be the Mahamudra itself. . . .

and your sense of personal authenticity and power should be resolved into virtue.

reads: [1] May their evil deeds ripen in me. May all my virtue without exception ripen in them. [2] I offer all my profit and gain to sentient beings, those honorable ones; I will take on all loss and defeat. [3] May all the evil deeds and suffering of sentient beings ripen in me, and all my virtue and happiness ripen in sentient beings.

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

who feared God, but not death … who thought none below him but the base and unjust, none above him but the wise and virtuous'.

I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

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

Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.