Virtue Quotes
-
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
-
Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.
-
Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the same quality from two sides; on one it is a fault, on the other a merit. The essential of a man is found concealed far below these moral badges.
-
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
-
We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.
-
Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
-
No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness.
-
The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.
-
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ... You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.
-
There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.
-
He (the sage) is good to those who are good. He is also good to those who are not good. That is the virtue of good.
-
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
-
What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.
-
The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
-
The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims.
-
The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.
-
While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and talent she keeps inside.
-
Again, it is possible to fail in many ways, while to succeed is possible only in one way; for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.
-
All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.
-
We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.
-
God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
-
In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.
-
Is virtue something that can be taught?
-
O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon me, O Jesus, so much carelessness, pardon such great ignorance. My God, Jesus my Love, Increated Goodness, what would have become of me if you had not drawn me to yourself? Open your heart to me, open to me your sacramental breast; I open mine to you.
