Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given after all. Choices can be hard.

There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.

To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.

There comes a moment in every life when a choice must be made between right and wrong, between good and evil, between light and darkness. These decisions are made in an instant, but with repercussions that last a lifetime.

When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil.

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

The future success of our nation depends on our ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices.

We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"

When faced with the choice to Love or Decieve, therein lies the path to the Heroes and Thieves.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.

The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.

Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'

Whatever title or office we may be privileged to hold, it is what we do that defines who we are ... Each of us must decide what kind of person we want to be-what kind of legacy that we want to pass on.

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is much, to love by faith is more; both are the entire love, without which heart, mind, and soul cannot be alike satisfied. We love and ought to love one another, not merely for the absolute worth of each, but on account of a mutual fitness of temporary character.

I don't care about what brand you are, I'm concerned what type of man you are, what your principles and standards are.

Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.

The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and estimable in the human character.