Quotes About Virtue

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.

Noble fathers have noble children.

The forgotten man. He is the clean, quiet, virtuous domestic citizen who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of outside his little circle. ... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.

In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

Saint abroad, and a devil at home.

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it, at any rate, brag.

Every action has a consequence, so always try to be good.

Just try to do the right thing, and that's immediate karma: 'I feel good about myself.'

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

If I could change one thing about myself... I would try to control my generosity.

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

I always say in my tweets, don't do something for credit. Do it because it's the right thing to do.

Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion.

Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself.

I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.

People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

If you sincerely want to know if you're "going too far," don't ask yourself, "Is this bad?" Instead ask yourself, "Is this pure?"

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.