Quotes about Virtue

In people without rock-solid character, feeling is a deadly enemy of self-control and will always subvert it. The mongoose of a disciplined will under God and good is the only match for the cobra of feeling.

The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self-control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.

"Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf."

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Be good and you will be lonely.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity... Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.

Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.