Quotes About Virtue

If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.

I would inevitably get the girls who were interested in me because I was the guy from E.T. It was kind of tough. I can't deny ever capitalizing upon it but on the whole in my teens I was pretty virtuous.

Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the moral sphere - the Pavarottis and Maradonas of virtue.

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.

If children are expected to be honest, parents must be honest. If children are expected to be virtuous, parents must be virtuous. If you expect your children to be honorable, you must be honorable.

If we seek things that are virtuous and lovely, we surely will find them. Conversely, if we seek for evil, we will find that also.

Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.

I've never understood why some people think it's virtuous and essential to finish every book they start.

Like the plague, opioids kill the young, the old, the healthy, the sick, the virtuous and the sinful.

The more we become civilized, the more we simultaneously understand our need to be virtuous and our need to understand our experiences on a subconscious level.

I am known for always playing virtuous characters.

Our virtuous system is already corrupt. Does anyone seriously think that cabinet ministers or captains of industry or powerful officials wait in the same lines as the rest of us?

The virtue of Love is nothing and all, or that Nothing visible out of which All Things proceed. Its power is through All Things; its height is as high as God; its greatness is as great as God.

A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.

The children of violently unhappy marriages, like my mother, are often hamstrung for life, but the children of happier marriages have problems too - all the worse, perhaps, because they don't have virtue on their side.

The way a man handles himself in his anger may define his nobility.

Do right. Do your best.

hacer lo correcto conduce a la felicidad; lo erróneo, a la infelicidad. Esto es absolutamente independiente de quién seas, la edad que tengas y el lugar donde estés. Lo decreta el Camino.

Plant what is right. Then you will harvest good things." —HOSEA 10:12 ICB

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Keep doing good deeds long enough and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

If war is the test of reality, than all poetry is unreal; but in that case unreality is a virtue.