Quotes About Virtue

Deny Self for Self's sake

The greatest virtue that one should try to cultivate is the habit of self-reliance.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

Never judge any person by his answers or questions but by his nature of character solely.

I would like to advise all the dear brothers and sisters and also myself to observe piety and virtue and to be watchful of ourselves in our words, deeds, thoughts and intentions.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

Listen - listen to my advice! Only the good deeds which you have done shall remain with you, O my soul.

If you'd be loved, be worthy to be loved.

Sometimes being single just means that you're strong enough to wait on what's real and not rush into what's fake.

He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

To honor commitment is virtue of a person of character.

Strength of character determines one's commitment. When a dream which looks impossible, seems possible when one summons willpower to rescue him and this is for a person of strong character. Willpower is virtue of a person of high self esteem.

To honor commitment is virtue of people with strong character.

But in the month when this confession begins, my way of seeing the world still seemed more of a virtue than a danger, which is how some dangers first appear.

Virtue is the "magic" of moral life for it often appears in the most unexpected persons and places and with surprising results.

Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. "It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

God gives each of us according to the quality of our hearts.

Make yourself a noble man before advising others.

Those who are free from corruption are only those who haven't been born yet.

Your enemy is not the one who harms you, but the one who makes you evil.

Something that is evil can never be called good, and something that is good can never be called evil.