Quotes About Virtue

Money brings about good consequences – helps us live valuable lives – only when joined with 'virtues'. Virtues are good abilities of mind and character.

True friendship is premised on a strong character.

THE RANGER'S VOW LOYAL, BRAVE, KIND AND TRUE— KEEPER OF THE OLD AND NEW— I GUARD THE WILD, DEFEND THE WEAK, MARK THE PATH, AND VIRTUE SEEK. FOREST SPIRITS HEAR ME NOW AS I SPEAK MY RANGER'S VOW.

21Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

I have been told that, when you can adequately formulate a grief, you have removed half the sting of it, and I fancy that in the case of the pleasing emotions the same explication doubles the pleasure. That is the virtue of the poets, since they do for the ordinary man what he cannot do for himself.

The war had called forth the finest qualities of human nature, and with the advent of peace there seemed a risk of the world slipping back into a dull materialism. Men had begun to ask of everything its cash value, and to cherish, as if it were a virtue, a narrow utilitarian commonsense.

Indeed, to know is something that pleases talkers and boasters, but to do is that which pleases God. Not

Better, though difficult, the right way to go. Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and virtue; for thou hast created all things, and by thy will they have their being and were created. – Revelation 4:11)

Christian nodded. "Now I see that Patience has superior wisdom in many ways. First of all, because he waits for the best things. Second, because he will also have the glory of his inheritance, when the other has nothing but rags.

humility comes before honor and a haughty spirit before a fall.

A saint abroad and a devil at home.

The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns, but the path of the righteous is made plain. –

there is more virtue in one sin to destroy, than in all thy righteousness to save thee alive.

un hombre, por política, puede clamar contra el pecado; pero no puede aborrecerlo sino en virtud de una piadosa antipatía contra él. He oído a muchos clamar contra el pecado, en el púlpito, que sin embargo lo siguen albergando en el corazón, en su casa y en su conversación.

So much of leadership relies on good character. Trust is created through it. Talent is protected by it. Internal peace is fostered by it.

D. L. Moody escribió: «Si me ocupo de mi carácter, mi reputación se ocupará de sí misma».

El optimismo es una virtud pasiva; la esperanza es activa. No se necesita valor para ser optimista, pero se necesita mucho valor para tener esperanza».

We don't get to pick our talents or IQ. But we do choose our character. In fact, we create it every time we make choices—to cop out or dig out of a hard situation, to bend the truth or stand under the weight of it, to take the easy money or pay the price.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

there is one quality

I have spent considerable of my leisure time in this past year in the improvement of my mind but I find that much of it has been spent extremely foolish and that walking in the pasture at dusk with virtuous, amiable and genteel young ladies I experience none but swineish passions. I commenced to read Russell's Modern Europe sometime last summer.

While the trials extend and the pain increases, patience becomes your virtue.

There is no greater wealth than Virtue, and no greater loss than to forget it.