Quotes About Virtue

Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.

Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.

Just as good and virtue, sin and evil can only be given in vigil. Who sleeps, sleeps; for the asleep there is no sin, just as there is no good, nor virtue. There is only sleep.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.

Now that you made me a knight again", he said lightly, "I'll have to keep my mind on certain knightly virtues like chastity." Ciara could not remember that ever being a knightly virtue.

He did not look like an archangel—if archangels looked as he did, there would be no women of virtue left in Paradise.

We women have been taught since birth that virtue is our greatest asset. I have nothing against virtues—I'd like to think that there are many virtues I practice assiduously. But power does not yield to virtue. Power yields only to power.

Patience is an overrated virtue. It's much more fun to have what you want now—especially since there is no guarantee that a longer wait will produce better results.

If England was the mother of the Big Boy, America, she was, I fear, a woman of questionable virtue. No one knows for certain who the father was.

After all, we do seem attached to sin and there are so many people busy making sin unattractive. It is good to find someone who takes the other road.

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

Feeling good is a natural outcome of doing good; and doing good is a natural outcome of being good.

We may cultivate, for example, our reputation as a sincere and virtuous practitioner, instead of simply practicing sincerely and nurturing our virtues

When we wear the okesa, we are also farming. This is the meaning of "robe of virtuous field" (fukuden-e). This body and mind is the field we work. It is not a field of fortune from which we can expect to receive blessings without practice. We have to cultivate our life.

To him, as to me, the War was inevitable and justifiable. Courage remained a virtue. And that exploitation of courage, if I may be allowed to say a thing so obvious, was the essential tragedy of the War, which, as everyone now agrees, was a crime against humanity.

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality.