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Quotes About Virtue

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
~ John Dryden
Good deeds are many, but good lives are few.
~ Christina Rossetti
Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.
~ Gautama Buddha
Virtue its own reward? Alas! And what a poor one as a rule! Be virtuous and life will pass Like one long term of Sunday School.
~ Harry Graham
The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
~ Joseph Joubert
I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.
~ Mark Twain
Just as the Salt Lake Temple took 40 years to build, stone by stone, you are building a virtuous life, step by step.
~ Mary N. Cook
Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes a curse - and others will always choose for him.
~ Paulo Coelho
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
~ Alan Paton
The great virtue of those who seek the spiritual path is courage.
~ Paulo Coelho
This world is very good as if we do good deeds then we will get its fruits. World is bitter for those who are live their life with corruption or sins.
~ Rahman Baba
What is good for the bad, and what is bad for the good.
~ Seiji Kaneko
Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.
~ Saint Augustine
You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.
~ Saint Augustine
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.
~ Steven Pinker
Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue!
~ Thomas a Kempis
Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.
~ Harold S. Kushner
Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
The true guide of life is to do what is right.
~ Winston Churchill
This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.
~ Neal Shusterman, Everlost
Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.
~ William Kennedy, Roscoe
Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.
~ Ayn Rand