Quotes About Virtue

"Idleness is the beginning of all vices."

When will you understand that being normal isn't necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.

Prudery is the hypocrisy of modesty

Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise.

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

A person who has no need of character is called characterless.

Character is what you are when no one is looking.

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

Patience is a virtue, you tell yourself. Good things come to those who wait. You never before realized how many aphorisms are just attempts to convince the agitated not to act.

A kiss To a young girl, faith to a married woman, hope to an old maid, charity.

Bounteous, and holy, just, and wise, Alone most fair to all men's eyes? Devoid of envy, firm, and sage

Ráma's glory

In a whirlwind world, independent languor becomes a virtue, and meditation engenders a finer art than any nervousness

In the old days, you could see it: whether a person had it or not. Those who had it were conscientious, those without it were conscienceless. And now only the devil can tell, everything is mixed up in one pile. They bring it up needlessly with every word, mauling the poor thing so much it's barely alive.

One need not fear the devil, but rather the perverse tendencies in oneself!

the only thing that grows over time is the glory of those who have lived honourably.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.

Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.

Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired.

At sixteen, he was inclined to be rather priggish and self-righteous. Not such bad qualities in adolescence after all, since most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.