Quotes About Virtue

Do well and right, and let the world sink.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the heroical virtue.

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. ... Great necessities call out great virtues.

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

Zsa Zsa Gabor, when asked which of the Gabor women was the oldest, said "She'll never admit it, but I believe it is Mama." When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

Handsome is that handsome does.

The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.

Combine common sense and the Golden Rule, and you will have very little bad luck.

Good, but not religious-good.

To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Character is perfectly educated will.

Character is long-standing habit.

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.

The man whose conscience never troubles him must have it pretty well trained.

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."

A virtuous wife is a man's best treasure.

The only incorruptible thing about us.

You never say a word of yourself, dear Lady Grey. You have that dreadful sin of anti-egotism.