Max Heindel Quotes

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Do not feel lonely on the road of righteousness Because of the fewness of the walkers on it.

Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

If I wanted to do wrong, I could not.

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

The greatest man is he who chooses the Right with invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptations from within and without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in storms and most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.

No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself. . .

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.