Quotes About Virtue

It doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, because anyone who knows you knows what a great guy you are on the inside. You're honest and true.

True beauty is a beautiful character shinning through.

For an educated person, intelligence is important but character is more important.

The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.

It's nice to be known as a good player. But I want to be known as a good person, too.

In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you'll need religion.

Personal integrity is important, not because it gets us what we want, but because it helps us be what we want.

The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.

Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil

L'homme n'est ni ange ni be" te, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la be" te. Man is neither angel nor beast.Unfortunately, he who wants to act the angel often acts the beast.

The man who pauses in his honesty wants little of a villain.

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do

This kid deserves anything good that happens to him. He's such a good guy. He's just the nicest human being you want to meet.

17Remember, it is better to suffer for doing good, if that is what God wants, than to suffer for doing wrong!

verray, parfit gentil knyght'.

The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.

If the deceased person has led a wholesome life of virtue, they will see themselves surrounded by hosts of divine beings who will call out to him or her by name and invite him or her to accompany them to paradise. Abandoning all attachment to their present body, they should relax their minds and then gather together all that remains of his or her consciousness and follow these heavenly messengers upward and out of the body to a pure realm of awareness and bliss.

Azt hiszem a bizalom a legsérülékenyebb az erények közül; mivel kényes, könnyen törik, és ha egyszer összetört, többé sohasem lehet helyreállítani.

But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

Love softens everything except our sense of integrity.

By developing new, often revolutionary products, by moving the country forward, Big Business believed it was doing more than making money; it was doing something virtuous. "The man who builds a factory builds a temple—the man who works there worships there," Calvin Coolidge said.

Who upholds the gorsedd if not You? Who counts the ages of the world if not You? Who commands the Wheel of Heaven if not You? Who quickens life in the womb if not You? Therefore, God of All Virtue and Power, sain us and shield us with Your Swift Sure Hand.

And his valour was such that it was exceeded only by his virtue, which was exceeded only by his wisdom, which was itself exceeded only by his honesty.