Quotes About Virtue

We tarnish the luster of our most beautiful actions when we applaud them ourselves.

Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous, and fortune is so blind that in a crowd in which there is perhaps but one wise and brave man it is not to be expected that she should single him out.

We would like to believe that patience is a virtue. But is it? Not if it demands that we pretend to be calm when we feel agitated, that we not act the way we feel, that our behavior, instead of reflecting, hides our true feelings.

Vont er þeirra ránglæti, verra þeirra réttlæti.

The myths record the earliest attempt at an explanation of the world and its life; the fairy tale records the free and joyful play of the imagination, opening doors through hard conditions to the spirit, which craves power, freedom, happiness; righting wrongs and redressing injuries; defeating base designs; rewarding patience and virtue; crowning true love with happiness;

the Prophet laughed and said, "If you, ?Umar, went down one path, Satan would take another.

Imam Ab? al?asan al-Sh?dhil?, a thirteenth century scholar, once prayed, "O God, make my bad actions the bad actions of those whom You love, and do not make my good actions the good actions of those with whom You are displeased.

The hadith states that the second sign of wretchedness is a lack of modesty or shame. Among the words revealed to humanity are, "If you feel no shame, do what you will.

One of the cures for heedlessness is keeping good and sincere company. It is recognized in virtually all traditions and cultures that the company one keeps has inroads to one's heart and morality. When surrounded by people who are sincere and trustworthy, one only benefits from them. Even when a person errs, good companions remind him and set him right.

??te bu hal, de?i?meyen bir gerçe?in etraf?nda ?ekillenir: Ne yaparsak yapal?m Allah'?n bizi gördü?ünün fark?nda olmak. Bu fark?ndal??? beslemek, insan? Hakk'? gücendirecek ve edebe ayk?r? i?ler yapmaktan al?koyar. ??te nebevi terbiyenin asaleti buradan gelir.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

Großmütig darf man nur zu einem großmütigen Feind sein, ein kleinlicher Feind hält Großmut immer für Schwäche.

1) He must be competent, (2) he must exercise good judgment, and (3) he must have character. By itself, competence is meaningless without character and good judgment. If

Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

find God in the willingness of so many people to do the right thing, even when the right thing is difficult, expensive, or unappreciated, and to reject the wrong thing no matter how tempting or profitable.

Until I die, I will maintain my integrity. (27:2–5) This

Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human.

The virtuous man is contempt to dream what the wicked man really does.

Plato made this point several thousand years ago when he wrote: "The virtuous man is content to dream what the wicked man really does.

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.

What poor, mean trash this whole business of human virtue is! A mere matter, for the most part, of latitude and longitude, and geographical position, acting with natural temperament. The greater part is nothing but an accident.