Quotes About Virtue

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love – and so I take my leave, In resolution as I swore before. -Hortensio

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.

It is my purpose, as one who lived and acted in these days, first to show how easily the tragedy of the Second World War could have been prevented; how the malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous...

He felt he would like one more look at the sea, which even now was licking at the rocks behind the house. He had no sentimental notions about the sea; he had no regard for its dangers or its beauties; to him it was a close acquaintance whose every virtue and failing, every smile and tantrum he had come to understand.

Tedn sense, tedn reasonable, tedn right, tedn proper, tedn true!

He felt righteous and unashamed. He decided to go to bed sober.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Good and great are seldom in the same man.

the malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous;

Virtuous motives, trammelled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because . . . it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Rare and precious is the truly disinterested man.

Without Courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Better a Zero than a Nero.

How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice! Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Since any armed movement against an established Government can be justified only by success, strength is an important revolutionary virtue.

while here and there the bright flashes of the guns or the occasional whistle of a random bullet accompanied our path, the conviction came into my mind with absolute assurance that the simple soldiers and their regimental officers, armed with their cause, would by their virtues in the end retrieve the mistakes and ignorances of Staffs and Cabinets, of Admirals, Generals and politicians—

It is baffling to reflect that what men call honour does not correspond always to Christian ethics. Honour is often influenced by that element of pride which plays so large a part in its inspiration.

Ale z tego niedosz?ego starcia pozostanie mu ju?, a? do ko?ca chyba, rosn?ce prze?wiadczenie, ?e cnota ma szpony i umie mordowa?, ?e ?wiat moralny i duchowy podlega powszechnemu prawu okrucie?stwa.

His ways were a refuge from falsity.

There are two kinds of people in this world, good and bad. The good people sleep better, but the bad people tend to have more fun during the waking hours.

When man has a virtuous thought,     Heaven will grant him support.