Quotes About Virtue

In the Bible, nearly each time the virtue of courage appears (about twenty-five times), it is often in conjunction with the words strong or strength. The two are intertwined throughout the Bible and throughout society, so much so that the word courage in sign language is two clenched fists.

To put it simply, you are never right to make wrong, or wrong to make right. To be right, make right.

Many things people like, especially if they're young and ambitious, they like largely for the feeling of virtue in liking them. 99% of people reading Ulysses are thinking I'm reading Ulysses as they do it.

The world rolls: the circumstances vary every hour. All the angels that inhabit this temple of the body appear at the windows, and all the gnomes and vices also. By all the virtues they are united. If there be virtue, all the vices are known as such; they confess and flee.

Lines from William Blake's Jerusalem came to mind: He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars. General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer.

Why is patience so important? Because it makes us pay attention.

When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue.

It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.

But as far as true goodness was concerned, that didn't exist - not in the land of cowardly men.

The problem with the world is not a shortage of brilliant theories or feel-good slogans. The problem is that we confuse proliferation of progressive terminology with profound empathy and purposeful engagement. We say the right things, but we fail to act on them because we want to feel virtuous without paying a price

We must save ourselves by doing what is godlike and we will become godlike.

the superior man leads not by violence or by coarse physical acts but by the pure intelligence of a wise mind.

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy.

Your anger, pride, deceit, and greed should be such that they hurt no one. If they are limited to where they only hurt only you and no one else, then the path of liberation is open.

Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one's emotions' attempt to contaminate one's opinions.

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it.

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

Righteousness alone can exalt them [America] as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and encourage it in others.

The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my recreation in the arts.

The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.