Term Papers on Virtues Of My Life: Order, Courage, Patience

Term Paper Title	Virtues Of My Life: Order, Courage, Patience
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Virtues of My Life: Order, Courage, Patience

        In order to survive in 1996, there need to be at least some standards
and goals of morality in a person's life.  Moral excellence is definitely hard
to achieve, but is definitely something to attempt.  Personally, there are many
distractions and obstructions the present day provides, creating a difficulty of
direction in my own life.  I need to overcome obstacles such as peer pressure in
order to become a confident, successful person.  The present day provides
impediments which I believe I can overcome by way of morality and virtue.  Order,
courage, patience, and faith are all virtues necessary for personal achievement
in my life.
     The first virtue I have chosen is order.  In agreement with Russell Kirk,
I also believe that "order is the path we follow, or the pattern by which we
live with purpose and meaning."  Order  is something that directs in our
everyday lives, a working condition we cannot live without.  Without order there
is chaos, and with chaos there is room for little virtue.  Order is important
because it provides life with stability and direction.   As an example of a
personal order, the school schedule which  governs my academic studies is a type
of order, setting specifics of where and when I should be.  Order helps in my
life if I am able and willing to create a schedule for each day,  specifically
stating when I should be doing what.  If I can achieve order in my own life,
worries and concerns will be eliminated by means of order that will easily
become habit.  Russell Kirk also states, "Order is the first need of the soul.
It is not possible to love what one ought to love, unless we recognize some
principles of order by which to govern ourselves."  Because of the needs of our
soul, I again agree with Russell Kirk that religion, morality itself, and our
everyday feelings are derivatives of order.  Nothing can be achieved without
some sort of order, but we must first recognize that the things we desire can...

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