Quotes About Virtue

Your character is your destiny.

Truth and Good are one; and Beauty dwells in them, and they in her.

If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.

For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.

Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

Forgiveness is Truth itself. It is Righteousness, it is the Veda. It is the supreme virtue in this world.

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.

Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth.

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.

I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.

My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.