Quotes About Virtue

There is no real excellence in all this world that can be separated from the right living.

Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.

Unselfish and noble acts are the most radiant epochs of the biography of souls.

The more you feel the need to signal your virtue, the more you expose your real lack of it

Virtue is never its own reward for the narcisisst

My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.

It was astonishing, I mused, how often people claimed to be honest when they were simply making a virtue of excessive rudeness.

You get to thinking that maybe the diving line shouldn't be animals and people but good and bad.

Your gift is your grace.

Only grace makes it possible to do the good we must do.

Goodness is grace.

Do not be devilish.

Reject evil. Choose the good.

In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so as to elevate human life to a higher plane.

Do what is right for the right reasons.

Honesty will guide you to goodness, and goodness will invite you to heaven.

You might be educated, but if you are not kind you are not wise.

Just be kind to be wise and to be intelligent.

The man who said no to sin, cheat, deceit, manipulation, wickedness, hatred, jealousy and pride, has said yes to greatness

Blessed is he who keeps his hands from doing evil.

CULTIVATE THE GOOD WITHIN

Whoever find the goodness of grace, departs from wicked acts of evil.

He discovered in his heart the first faint whispering of pure Christianity, and in some way he continued to keep his virtue intact by keeping his vices active.