Quotes About Virtue

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.

Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.]

Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own

Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.

Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.

Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.

To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

The goodness you do might fail; but keep doing it, because the real failure is never doing goodness!

Among the believers who show most perfect faith are those who have best disposition and are kindest to their families.

Faith is not an easy virtue; but, in the broad world of a person's total voyage through time to eternity, faith is not only a gracious companion, but an essential guide.

True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.

There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.

By virtue of love is the lover transformed in the beloved and the beloved transformed in the lover.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.