Quotes About Virtue

Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.

My mother taught me right and wrong, and the right is the only way to go.

If you do right, things come out right.

I try to do things the right way.

When you're righteous, you don't have to tell people that you're righteous.

Righteousness is on our side.

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

The high road is the only road I know.

None of us knows what a good or bad person is. In real life we're all brilliant and a bit rubbish.

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint.

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

We partner with movies that stand for more than the latest bestseller.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Although we still live in an uncertain and violent world, it is important for us to be moving in the direction of a culture of love, wisdom, truth, justice and virtue envisaged by Peter Deunov.

To be great is to keep sweetness.

As Meister Eckhart once said: When one can do the works of virtue without preparing, by willing to do them, and bring to completion some great and righteous matter without giving it a thought – when the deed of virtue seems to happen by itself, simply because one loved goodness and for no other reason, then one is perfectly virtuous and not before.

And Judas Iscariot's name continues in the twenty-first century to represent a crushing rebuke, a despicable traitor, as in the controversialist Lady Gaga's 2011 single, 'Judas', about being in love with a bad 'un. 'Jesus is my virtue', she sings in a promotional video bursting with religious imagery, 'and Judas is the demon I cling to'.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.

To have displeased evil and ignorant men is the sure sign of genius and virtue...