Virtue Quotes
-
A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.
-
Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.
-
This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.
-
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
-
A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates everywhere in time and space.
-
How is it possible to live in world where people can rule millions of others? It's incredible! It's like we've gone back to the 12th century. That's what happens when you decapitate intelligentsia and repeatedly traumatize and brutalize a country for decades on end: you do not get virtue. Victims do not make nice people.
-
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
-
There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.
-
He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.
-
Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me?
-
Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.
-
Humility is the mother of all virtues. Humility says we are not in control, principles are in control, therefore we submit ourselves to principles. Pride says that we are in control, and since our values govern our behavior, we can simply do life our way.
-
Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.
-
The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
-
The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.
-
Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
-
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
-
I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through birth and death, Joy and sorrow, heaven and hell; And in the end I realized that I AM in everything and everything is in me.
-
The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and character].
-
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
-
There is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.
-
Everyone needs resilience. It's a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness.
-
The divine element manifests itself (or show up) in man as well by his aptitude for science, than by his aptitude for virtue. True morality, true philosophy and true art are in their essence ("dans leur essence", Fr.) religious."
-
Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in low regard.
