Quotes About Virtue

I like to think of myself as a genuinely good person.

I'm a good person and a good guy.

If you're a good person, and you work hard, I believe ultimately things are meant to happen to good people.

I want to be a good person.

Being a 'legend' doesn't make you a good person.

It's not a problem to be great and do good things.

Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.

this final and long longed-for job: to be unhappy without doing evil.

If you want to be holy, be kind.

The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Conscience is, to the individual soul, and to society, what the law of gravitation is to the universe. It holds society together; it is the basis of all trust and confidence; it is the pillar of all moral rectitude. Without it, suspicion would take the place of trust; vice would be more than a match for virtue; men would prey upon each other, like the wild beasts of the desert; and earth would become a hell.

Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

Injustice and filth they throw after the lonely one: but, my brother, if you would be a star, you must not shine less for them because of that. And beware of the good and the just! They like to crucify those who invent their own virtue for themselves—they hate the lonely one.

One is punished most for one's virtues.

Solitude is a virtue for us, since it is a sublime inclination and impulse to cleanliness which shows that contact between people, "society", inevitably makes things unclean. Somewhere, sometime, every community makes people—"base.

The worst mutilation of man that can be imagined presented as the good man.

When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher.

A virtue must be our invention; it must spring out of our personal need and defence.

The noble man wants to create something new and a new virtue. The good want the old, and that old should be preserved.

good men never tell the truth. The good taught you false shores and false securities: you were born and kept in the lies of the good. Everything has been distorted and twisted down to its very bottom through the good

So I ask my pride that it always go along with my wisdom. And when my wisdom leaves me one day alas - it loves to flyway - let my pride then fly with my folly.