Quotes About Virtue

The thing I try to preach the most when anybody asks me for advice - I say just be a good person first and foremost.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

I think I'm a decent person.

I'm a basically decent person.

We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

Right is its own defense.

Everybody has a different definition of the good side.

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.

If I didn't care about your virtue so much, I'd actually probably give him a lecture on how to try something.

The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is quiet.

Learning to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong

Self-righteousness is without a true bottom.

proverb, "A man's pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.

Discouragement often comes from focusing on the wrong things. It also derives from a lack of patience, which is a virtue we are losing in our society.

A man's pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.

I don't think it matters if there is a god or not. I've met people who believe in God that are good and that are bad. And I've met people who don't believe in God that are good and that are bad. So, just be good. I'm good. Not cos I think I'll go to heaven but because when I do something bad, I feel bad. And when I do something good, I feel good.

A scholar always treads on the path of righteousness and as result becomes successful.