Quotes About Virtue

What I desire most of you, my son, is never to gamble or swear. These are baneful vices.

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.

No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.

Nations, as well as individuals, must be virtuous and righteous if they desire to be stable, prosperous, and tranquil.

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

You have a great destiny before you. This is your moment! I truly believe that one virtuous young woman, led by the Spirit, can change the world.

You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as a mysterious law of existence. In obedience to it we have to fulfill our destiny.

Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.

If character is destiny, the good are damned.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.