Quotes About Virtue

It's the simple truth that mortal men cannot understand why the gods shape events as they do. Why some men and women are cut off in fullest flower, while others live to dwindle into shadows of themselves. Why virtue must sometimes be trampled and evil flourish amidst the beauty of a country garden. Why chance, sheer random chance, plays such an overwhelming role in the life lines and fate lines of men.

Honi soit qui mal y pense' – 'Shame on him who thinks evil of this.' The phrase

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Caution is often a virtue, but in your case you carry it too far. It's a little flaw in your character and it shows in a multitude of ways. In your wary approach to problems in your work for instance, you are always too apprehensive, proceeding fearfully step by step when you should be plunging boldly ahead. You keep seeing dangers when there aren't any, you've got to learn to take a chance, to lash out a bit. As it is, you are confined to a narrow range of activity by your own doubts.

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue," resumed the whisper.

Just because a person is capable of wickedness, doesn't mean they will act upon it.

Being with patience is It self is a blessing Being polite during patience is double the Blessing

If you take care of your character, your reputation will take care of itself.

Try to be a good person, because you think it's the right thing to do. If you commit fewer bad acts there will be fewer bad acts, maybe other people will join in committing fewer bad acts, and in time there will be fewer and fewer of them.

It doesn't matter how old you are or where you come from. Manners, kindness, respect and compassion will always be the signs of a good human being.

Often times it's easier to do bad things out of emotions, but we have to educate our minds to do the right thing which is harder to do. Proper discernment and wise decision is needed which needs a little time to act.

Be just before you are generous.

Now patience; and remember patience is the great thing, and above all things else we must avoid anything like being or becoming out of patience.

Another life! A life of grace and virtue and happiness! It was true. It was not a dream from which he would wake. The past was past.

You have fallen from a higher world, and you are filled with fierce indignation, when you find that life is cowardly and ignoble. While I…I have come up from a lower world and I am filled with astonishment when I find that people have any redeeming virtue at all.

It's a great burden, being one of the good guys.

As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those who own nothing else.

My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and brings little wisdom to any of us.

was the kind of evening that people of my generation associate with a more predictable era, one that may have been unjust in many ways but possessed a far greater level of civility and trust and shared sense of virtue that, for good or bad, seemed to define who we were. It

Death, like virtue, has its degrees.

To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." - Theodore Roosevelt.

there was no recipe that ensured a good life, and virtue was a joke. So was Karma. Life slapped down the righteous and the spiritual just as easily as the wicked and the free. The trick was to embrace this reality wholeheartedly. In so doing the smart man, the perfect man, the free man could act without fear of consequences.