Quotes About Virtue

It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.

Judging yourself to be full of virtue paralyses. Judging yourself to be full of guilt also paralyses.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.

The white flower of a blameless life.

Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.

Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.

He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.

Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.

Everyone dies whether one is good in their lifetime or evil in their lifetime. So virtue has no payback. Life is meaningless. When you die, you die!

Good character improves every aspect of a person's life.

Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

A good Christian cannot be a bad husband or father and, as this is equally true in everything, he who has the most piety will shine the most in all the relationships of life.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Be humble in this life.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.