Quotes About Virtue

Time gnaws and wears away; it separates; it flies. And by virtue of separation--by separating man from his pain or from the object of his pain--time cures.

You didn't succeed. Well, what of that? There's nothing to prove, you know, and the revolution's not a question of virtue but of effectiveness. There is no heaven. There's work to be done, that's all. And you must do what you're cut out for; all the better if it comes easy to you. The best work is not the work that takes the most sacrifice. It's the work in which you can best succeed.

If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.

The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile.

The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.

The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.

What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

If you live your life the right way, you work hard, you go about things the right way, eventually something good's going to come of it.

Joyful is the accumulation of good work.

Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.

Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs .

Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!

Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.

Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.

Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise isn't leadership, it is pandering.

You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.

Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.

The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

I think we're innately good. But it doesn't mean we're gonna do good all the time. It means you have to strive.

Integrity is something I strive for in every part of my life.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.