Quotes About Virtue

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

Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit of the Holy Spirit grows and flourishes.

Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.

Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.

Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent.

The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.

All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own.

The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.

Generosity, generosity, generosity, must be the beginning and ending of our life

Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.

Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.

For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.

Character is what you are in the dark.

Don't look for flaws as you go through life and even when you find them it is wise and kind to be somewhat blind, and look for the virtue behind them.

To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.

Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.

For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.