Quotes About Virtue

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

When I do good, I feel good, when I do bad, I feel bad, and that's my religion.

It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices, have very few virtues.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Call me old-fashioned," Deepak said, "but I've always believed that hard work pays off. My version of the Beatitudes. Do the right thing, put up with unfairness, selfishness, stay true to yourself... one day it all works out. Of course, I don't know that people who wronged you suffer or get their just deserts. I don't think it works that way . But I do think that one day you get your reward.

Being the first born gives you great patience.

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Almost two years had passed once again since his father's death. Hugo remained in the city, pure and strong as a virgin; for the man who harbours a god in his breast will remain untouched by the baseness which the world holds in store.

The strength of a nation is derived from the character, not from the wealth, nor from the multitude of its people.

When we shift our emphasis from behavior to character, people evaluate choices differently. Instead of asking whether this behavior will achieve the results they want, they take action because it is the right thing to do. In the poignant words of one Holocaust rescuer, "It's like saving somebody who is drowning. You don't ask them what God they pray too. You just go and save them.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

People may think they despise those not as virtuous as themselves, but there's no end to the reservoirs of wrath we bear for those we know to be better.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades of paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colours more beautiful, though not so glowing as they would be without it.

there is not one good man on earth who does what is best* and doesn't err.

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

All life is bound up in three theses: struggle is the father of all things, virtue lies in the blood, and leadership is primary and decisive. 1928 Speech

Forethought and temperance are the virtues which produced thrift, and with thrift the economic progress of society. And those are the virtues which today are gravely compromised.

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one.

Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.