Quotes About Virtue

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.

There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.

A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

Do right. Fear Nothing.

None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.

Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.

Humility does not mean weakness. It does not mean timidity. It does not mean fear. A man can be humble and fearless. A man can be humble and courageous.

Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.

He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.

She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.

To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.

Fear could never make a virtue.

He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor.

I would rather be known in life as a honest sinner than as a lying hypocrite.

When what we want to do and what we ought to do are two different things, character is built in the choice we make

Through wisdom, we can easily bear the burdens of this life and respond to our fellow man with charity and patience.

A man can define many things beautifully in his life, but his character is one beautiful thing that can define him instantly and completely.

The days of life pass as the passing of clouds on the sky; do good as long as you are alive.

They said Life is a virtue. But they never mentioned that it was gonna hurt you.

Learning patience may be a virtue but to live faith is a gratitude of substance that proves your existence.