Quotes About Virtue

It takes a truly good person to gain power, strength, and mystical abilities and not misuse them.

If a man took a lover it would be accounted commonplace. Why shouldn't you? Your virtue lies in your mind, not in what lies between your legs.

Patience, she said in her best governess voice, is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

It's a virtue to know one's own heart and mind. It saves a lot of bother and a great deal of unhappiness.

He would be the kind of friend he wished he had, and so perhaps become worthy of having such a friend himself.

Momma said we had to fight the evil inside us by overcoming it with goodness. She said it was a hard thing to do, but it made us worthy.

And morality is nothing if it is merely a form of good behavior.

It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.

Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.

Do not think little of any good deed, even if it is just greeting your brother with a smile.

Charity with a smile shows the donor's character.

You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.

If good people would but make goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many they would win to the good cause.

I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.

It's full of worth and goodness too with manly kindness blent It's worth a million dollars and it doesn't cost a cent.

Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.