Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

So long as our Corps fields such Marines, America has nothing to fear from tyrants, be they Fascists, Communists or Tyrants with Medieval Ideology. For we serve in a Corps with no institutional confusion about our purpose: To fight! To fight well!

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

I don’t feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don’t have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you’ve got the money to be able to afford it, then it’s really good to buy something from me, but don’t buy too much.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‚Let’s Move‘ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

Sometimes, it’s just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It’s exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

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.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

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