Quotes about Virtue

Have courage," we often say to one another. Courage is a spiritual virtue. The word courage comes from the Latin word cor, which means "heart. A courageous act is an act coming from the heart. A courageous word is a word arising from the heart. The heart, however, is not just the place where our emotions are located. The heart is the centre of our being, the centre of all thoughts, feelings, passions, and decisions.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

By turns our purity inspires and our impurity casts us down.

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

You who govern public affairs, what need have you to employ punishments? Love virtue, and the people will be virtuous. The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass—the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Virtue does not remain as an abandoned orphan; it must of necessity have neighbors.

Along with every right thing to do is a right way to do it.

Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness.

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.

Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself.