Jane Porter Quotes

Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.

The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.

Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.

Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. Then he is instructed in what is set above him. He learns that his being is without bound; that to the good, to the perfect, he is born, low as he now lies in evil and weakness.

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.

Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.

The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.

Once you become a good person, then you have a chance of becoming a good basketball player.

Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.

Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.

We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

Be the Worst You Can Be: Life's Too Long for Patience and Virtue