Quotes About Virtue

I'm normally a really humble guy.

I think I'm a pretty moral guy, a very moral guy, but I'm not perfect.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

In the South of Spain, one could look to vice as quickly as to virtue for a sense of tradition.

One never does wrong by doing right.

As?l önemli olan baz? insanlar?n benim hakk?mda kötü ÅŸeyler söylemeleri deÄŸil, benim iyi ÅŸeyler yapmam.

La resignación es una de nuestras virtudes populares. Más que el brillo de la victoria nos conmueve la entereza ante la adversidad.

Hay 3 clases de amistad: por interés o utilidad, por placer y la amistad perfecta, la de los hombres de bien y semejantes en virtud, porque éstos se desean igualmente el bien.

God would make is happy, but He can only make us happy by making us holy...Sin is the parent of all misery; holiness is the root of all happiness.

Berani tanpa disertai kesabaran akan membunuh anda. Ambisius tanpa kesabaran dapat memusnahkan karier yang paling menjanjikan. Berjuang meraih harta tanpa kesabaran akan mengamblaskan milik yang sudah ada.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

Heros aren't defined by the way they die but how they live.

Make the right decision even when nobody's looking and you will always turn out okay

Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobody is going to know whether you did it or not.

Ka, you see, was one of those moralists who believe that the greatest happiness comes from never doing anything for the sake of personal happiness.

Personal nobility is greater than any calling, or any reward that it can bring.

To have done no man a wrong… to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude—this is to be a man

Real happiness cannot be bribed by anything sordid or low.

Reading is to the mind, says Addison, what exercise is to the body. As by the one health is preserved, strengthened and invigorated, by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished and confirmed.

There is something inside of a man which protests against doing that which tends to injure another, that which does not square with his God nature, with the best thing in him; that which is not working in response to his highest aspiration.

There is a very close connection between a fine, strong, clean physique and a fine, strong, clean character. A man who allows himself to become careless in regard to the one will, in spite of himself, fall away in the other.

STICK. Patience is the courage of the conqueror; it is the virtue, par excellence, of Man against Destiny, of the One against the World, and of the Soul against Matter.

Purity is power because it means integrity of thought, integrity of conduct. It means wholeness.

No man can be great who allows himself to get angry.