Agnes Repplier Quotes

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

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.

Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of wrongdoing.

Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man can be eminently virtuous who is not accustomed to an extensive range of reflection.

He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.

The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance.

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage, and determination.

It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and easy.

Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

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.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the moral sphere - the Pavarottis and Maradonas of virtue.

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

We should make virtue our master, not our servant.

. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed . . . so long as our manners and principles remain sound, there is no danger.

A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character.