Quotes About Virtue

woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.

Leave off from wrath, and let go displeasure: fret not thyself, else shalt thou be moved to do evil.

consistency, a virtue I have always deplored.

Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

Galbraith's First Law: Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.

No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise.

I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public, of peace and war.

A man should never be judged by his skill, talent, colour, financial or political status, facial beauty and level of education but by the quality of his character.

Find the good, and praise it.

Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.

Cleanliness begins with the love for godliness

Godliness is the root of cleanliness.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.

And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices.

Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

When you have a spirit of excellence, you do the right thing not because somebody is watching or making you do it; you do it because it's the right thing to do.

What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross, and in the power of His resurrection.