Quotes About Virtue

The female Klan of Indiana held its first statewide convention in July 1923, with a parade of white-robed women on horseback, bands and floats, initiation ceremonies, speeches on virtue and temperance, and a cross burning at night.

Ours is a culture where we wear our ability to get by on very little sleep as a kind of badge of honor that symbolizes work ethic, or toughness, or some other virtue—but really, it's a total profound failure of priorities and of self-respect.

Sparta, Rome, the knights of Europe, the samurai . . . worshipped strength. Because it is strength that makes all other values possible.

Many people feel that when they are overwhelmed or lose focus, they need to retreat into themselves and shut out the world. They think that there is greater merit and virtue in figuring things out alone. That doesn't work for me. I find myself, and activate my greatest creative capacities, in relationship with the beautiful diversity of other human beings.

Fueron los puritanos los que pervirtieron el trabajo y lo transformaron en virtud, olvidando claramente que Dios lo inventó como castigo

El artículo de David Brooks titulado «The Moral Bucket List». La

we wear our ability to get by on very little sleep as a kind of badge of honor that symbolizes work ethic, or toughness, or some other virtue—but really, it's a total profound failure of priorities and of self-respect.

Escribe sobre una época en la que supiste que habías hecho lo correcto.

Indeed, if pride would cease there would be no sin anywhere.

We are called to be people of great character so that, when we come in contact with the world, our character influences those around us.

The good people died first.

Since the nation is defined by its inherent virtue rather than by its future potential, politics becomes a discussion of good and evil rather than a discussion of possible solutions to real problems.

Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? I'm not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I'm just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I'd like to cut your chest open." The crowd cheers.

False shame only is harmful

Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue

Not by age but by character is wisdom acquired.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Flaxfield] was gentle. He was fair. He was honest. That's better than kind.

I'd learned long ago that patience was often rewarded. Certainly, impatience rarely was.

I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than of my body.

Wyatt didn't necessarily aim to be a saint in Dodge City, but being less of a sinner could be a more satisfying life. There

There was a while where every role I was getting offered was extremely noble - like the judge or the kindly nurse.

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.