Quotes About Virtue

Avoid the company of wickdes, otherwise you have to pay a heavy price.

His action no applause invites Who simply good with good repays; He only justly merits praise Who wrongful deeds with kind requites.*

The lustre of a virtuous character cannot be defaced, nor can the vices of a vicious man ever become lucid. A jewel preserves its lustre, though trodden in the mud, but a brass pot, though placed upon the head, is brass still.

The German Romantics of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries rejected the Atlantic West's new materialist, individualistic and imperialistic civilization in the name of local religious and cultural truth and spiritual virtue.

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.14

spirit of gratitude acknowledges that others, including our spouse, friends, and God, gave us many gifts, big and small, to help us achieve the goodness in our lives. Gratitude is a relationship-strengthening spirit. It's more than a feeling. It's an attitude, a habit, a choice, a motive, a way of life.3 Perhaps that's why Cicero, the Roman philosopher, said, "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Lord. Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial:

The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.

Jane austen says: a heroine has pride despite her imperfections.

A minimum of comfort is necessary for the practice of virtue.

Only an evil man needs to fear a good man.

Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory

The road of righteousness starts with faith.

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is impossible that a nation of infidels or idolaters should be a nation of freemen. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.

Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. ... Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.

It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.

Virtue will slumber. The wicked will be continually watching. Consequently, you will be undone.

teamwork is not a virtue. It is a choice—and a strategic one.

A heart filled with faith, hope, and love leads to a righteous, obedient life.

People with really stiff morals are easier to tip over.

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.