Quotes About Virtue

The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.

So there's much more to life than one's intelligence score. To be a decent human being. To have some character.

O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.

For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.

Bravery is a requisite virtue because life demands it.

There is no part of the whole course of our Saviour Christ's life or death, but it is well worthy our looking on; and from each part in it there goeth virtue to do us good.

Early Christianity, like Roman-era philosophical traditions, laid emphasis on everyday behavior, about how to live your life.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.

Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.

Whatever you do in your life, try to become a kind, and wise human being.

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.

Govern thy Life and Thoughts, as if the whole World were to see the one, and read the other.

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

Honesty that can be trusted and respected is a very fragrant flower in the life of a Christian.