Quotes About Virtue

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not.

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

There is no more beautiful sight than a young woman who glows with the light of the spirit who is confident and courageous because she is virtuous.

The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results.

To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy.

There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.

The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits

Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness

For if we are bidden to honor carnal fathers and mothers, how much more the spiritual? ... If this virtue of charity has been overlooked, a man will lose any fruit of salvation in any good he may do.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.

When one has truly imbibed spiritual qualities, they will spontaneously be reflected in one's thoughts and actions.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown.

If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

The Way to Heaven has no favorites. It is always with the good man.

It's not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it's what you have on the inside that shines in the dark.

That what keeps us supported is dharma (religion).

The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants to sin.