Quotes About Virtue

Remember no amount of Make-up can ever make up the deficiency of the good character in a person.

Self-centric may also speak online about humanity,any virtuous quality or even pretentiously voice against the atrocity of authority,but being a mentally-sick does not usually forget to add own pic in that post or thought to gain publicity and praise on his face

The maturity or sanity is to learn and listen about Charity, Honesty, Humanity, Loyalty, Originality, Simplicity and other virtuous quality only from a person who has neither the money or property in a huge quantity nor ever getting the support of the majority of people in own group or party.

The problem in telling honestly to the people as 'what is not correct' and 'who is not morally right', is not only that it doesn't correct the wrong person but also let left-out few right ones to be immoral.

The reputation is not essentially built by earning too much, learning too many things, achieving awards, bagging rewards or catapulting position to the hilt; but by unquestionably staying simple, humble , well grounded and doing nothing that makes own conscience to feel guilt.

There is no university,college,institute, academy or school, which could impart an education that can make a fool a wise until that pupil be truly nice.

There is perhaps no one who is punished more than a person who is truly good to the people.

Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.

A man of wit could not be a knave or villain.

And 'tis most evident and plain that simple Nature is the most harmless, inoffensive, and virtuous mistress. 'Tis she alone, if she were permitted, that better instructs the world than all the inventions of man. Religion would here but destroy that tranquillity they possess by ignorance; and laws would but teach 'em to know offense, of which now they have no notion.

The only shame is the sin.

Blessed is he who speaks a kindness thrice blessed is he who repeats it.

To the pure, all things are pure.

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly.112 They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own—not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me.

Mona Simpson, rose to honor him at his memorial service, that's not what she focused on. Yes, she talked about his work and his work ethic. But mostly she raised these as manifestations of his passions. "Steve worked at what he loved," she said. What really moved him was love. "Love was his supreme virtue," she said, "his god of gods. "When [his son] Reed was born, he began gushing and

The love of wine is a good man's failing.

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

Wise men, though all laws were abolished, would lead the same lives.

It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy.

It is easy to fly into a passion - anybody can do that - but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time with the right object and in the right way - that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

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.