Quotes about Virtue

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.

Whether you are shivering with cold or too hot, sleepy or wide awake, spoken well of or badly, dying, or doing anything else, do not let it interfere with doing what is right. For whatever causes us to die is also one of life's processes. Even for this, nothing is required of us than to accomplish well the task at hand.

Within ten days you will seem a god to those to whom you are now a beast and an ape, if you will return to your principles and the worship of reason.

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil.

No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good.

Goodness—what defines a good person. Keep to it in everything you do.