Quotes About Virtue

Of front-line importance among the most contagious and enduring traits of the leaders of nations and of all callings is that of spotless character.

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.

A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.

The Lord would have us to be walking epistles of His word. Jesus is the Word and is the power in us, and it is His desire to work in and through us His own good pleasure. We must believe that He is in us. There are boundless possibilities for us if we dare to act in God and dare to believe that the wonderful virtue of our living Christ shall be made manifest through us as we lay our hands on the sick in His name.

Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth — that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.

Think not faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing, for when I don't know what justice is, I'll hardly know whether it is a kind of virtue or not, or whether a person who has it is happy or unhappy.

It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man...

Do you feel no compunction, Socrates, at having followed a line of action which puts you in danger of the death penalty?' I might fairly reply to him, 'You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action--that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.

wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state

The really important thing is not live, but to live well.

You are wrong sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong.

Man's greatest privilege is the discussion of virtue" Socrates in The Apology.

a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong