Quotes About Virtue

That's why I'm waiting on my Boaz." I nodded and smiled. "He's the epitome of my Mr. Right. I figure, if God can make a Boaz for Ruth, He can make another one for me." "Who's Boaz?" Deniessa asked. "Boaz was a man in the Bible—the Book of Ruth, to be exact," I explained. "The original knight in shining armor. Boaz was an honorable, compassionate, rich man.

This world has been patient with you, be patient with it too. True strength of a human is patience. Patience increases inner strength and endurance. Patience makes you a witness of darkness unto sunrise, patience is a virtue of faith, gets everyone MickeyMized.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we count ourselves among them.

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

Honesty's the best policy.

No better than she should be.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

He preaches well that lives well.

La caridad encubre todos los pecados», decía san Pedro.

La caridad olvida, el perdón es olvido. ¡Ay del que persona sin olvidar! Es la más diabólica venganza... Hay que perdonarle al criminal su crimen, al virtuoso su virtud,al soberbio su soberbia, al humilde su humildad. Hay que perdonarles a todos el haber nacido...

La acción libra del mal sentimiento, y es el mal sentimiento el que envenena el alma.

Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.

De todas las virtudes que podemos aprender no hay otra característica más útil, más necesaria para la supervivencia y con más probabilidades de mejorar la calidad de vida que la capacidad de transformar la adversidad en un desafío que pueda proporcionarnos disfrute.

The fathers of the Church well understood that infatuation with the pleasures of the flesh could easily drain psychic energy away from other goals.

Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.

Even were the time to come when there would be neither poor nor rich, yet there will always be wise and stupid, sly and simple, for so there have ever been and ever will be. The strong man sets his foot on the neck of the weakling; the cunning man runs off with the simpleton's purse and sets the dunce to work for him. Man is a crooked dealer and even his virtue is imperfect. Only he who lies down never to rise again is wholly good.

The decent father had begged the matchmaker to find grooms for his unmarried daughters, since it was better for virgins to marry anyone than to scrounge for food when men and women were hungry, and virtue was expensive.

Let us so absorb integrity—experiencing both its triumphs and defeats—that we do the right thing intuitively.

Kart? mokydamas, kaip tapyti lotos? mano tapybos mokytojas ponas Vu aiškino: Ši graži g?l? auga iš nešvarum?. Mes sakome: "išaug?s iš purvo, bet nesusitep?s", taip ir kai kurie žmon?s gyvena blogio apsuptyje, bet išlieka dori.

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

God smites the rebels in blood. He who is merciful lifetime; Do not kill a man whose virtues you know.

He who reaches them without having done wrong Will exist there like a god. Free-striding like the lords forever!

No hasty man attains excellence, No impatient man is leaned upon.

To live with integrity, it is important to know what's right and what's wrong, to be educated morally. However, merely KNOWING is not enough. Virtuous character matters more than moral knowledge. The reason is simple: like the self-confessing apostle Paul in Romans 7, most of those who do wrong know what's right but find themselves irresistibly attracted to its opposite. Faith idles when character shrivels