Quotes About Virtue

Sadece arac? olduklar? iyiliklerden ötürü erdemleriyle gurur duyan insanlar, kaçamayacaklar? saçmal?klar da yaparlar.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue & you cannot have Moral Virtue without the Slavery of that half of the Human Race who hate what you call Moral Virtue

Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

Happiness is neither virtue or pleasure nor this thing or that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

the Christian vision is meant to be translated into virtue; the faith that apprehends God's gratuitous forgiveness in Christ must be translated into a radical obedience to him.

Wherin they shalle fynde many Ioyous and playsaunt hystoryes / and noble & renomed actes of humanyte / gentylnesse and chyualryes / For herein may be seen noble chyualrye / Curtosye / Humanyte / frendlynesse / hardynesse / loue / frendshyp / Cowardyse / Murdre / hate / vertue / and synne / Doo after the good and leue the euyl / and it shal brynge you to good fame and renommee / And for to passe the tyme thys boook shal be plesaunte to rede in /

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.

God gives to every man virtue, temper, and understanding.

Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade.

An honest man, close-button'd to the chin,Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase Are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

It was in such an enfeebled state of the Empire, that there arose a new sort of men, who so far from setting up patterns of piety and virtue, squandered away the lives and properties of the poor with so much barefacedness, that other men, on beholding their conduct, became bolder and bolder, and practised the worst and ugliest action, without fear or remorse. From those men sprung an infinity of evil-doers, who plague the Indian world, and grind the faces of its wretched inhabitants …

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

The great hope of society is in individual character.

I see the marks of God in the heavens and the earth, but how much more in a liberal intellect, in magnanimity, in unconquerable rectitude, in a philanthropy which forgives every wrong, and which never despairs of the cause of Christ and human virtue! I do and I must reverence human nature…. I thank God that my own lot is bound up with that of the human race.

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.