Quotes about Virtue

And somehow becoming a woman of self-discipline honors God and helps me live the godly characteristic of self-control.

Orang yang dilimpahi banyak karunia, dituntut untuk berbuat banyak kebaikan.

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility, nor is largeness and justness of view faith. Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound, gives no command over the passions, no influential motives, no vivifying principles. Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public, of peace and war.

Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.

When you have a spirit of excellence, you do the right thing not because somebody is watching or making you do it; you do it because it's the right thing to do.

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.

Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own

True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.