Browsing Topic Best Virtue Quotes

Chastity prays for me, piety sings,Innocence sweetens my last black breath,Modesty hides my thighs in her wings,And all the deadly virtues plague my death!

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

A state is organic when it has a center, and this center is an idea that shapes the various domains of life in an efficacious way; it is organic when it ignores the division and the autonomization of the particular and when, by virtue of the system of hierarchical participation, every part within its relative autonomy performs its own function and enjoys an intimate connection with the whole.

The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. They are the source of all spiritual qualities: forgiveness, tolerance, all the virtues. They give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive. There is nothing amazing about being rich or highly educated; only when the individual has a warm heart do these attributes become worthwhile.

Some philosophers think that the idea of a consequentialist virtue theory is strange, but the real strength of consequentialism is that it can emulate the requirements of other moral theories when it is the case that acting on those theories would improve the world.

Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue – and not a vice – to love myself, since I am a human being too.

Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind.

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

What makes a man heavy is the gravity of virtue. Without it, man will be so light that he will be drifted in the winds of immorality.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy sideThy every action let the goddess guide.

Judging yourself to be full of virtue paralyses. Judging yourself to be full of guilt also paralyses.

Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

My views on charity are very simple. I do not consider it a major virtue and, above all, I do not consider it a moral duty. There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them. I regard charity as a marginal issue. What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another’s pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure’s couch is virtues grave.

Virtue is necessary to a republic.

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

For in order for capitalism to work — in order for it to produce a good and a stable society — the traditional Christian virtues are essential.

One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work