Quotes on Moral Excellence

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

I think I would rather live on the verge of falling and let my security be in the all-sufficiency of the grace of God than to live in some pietistic illusion of moral excellence. Not that I don't want to be morally excellent but my faith isn't in the idea that I'm more moral than anybody else. My faith is in the idea that God and His love are greater than whatever sins any of us commit.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.