Quotes About Virtue

Obeying God never brings on public evils. I know it can't. It's always safest, all round, to do as He bids us.

Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

you're wrong, you will suffer for it. If you're right, you will find happiness. You have to be the one to decide. "Who are you to know?" It's your future at stake. You have to know. Freedom comes only from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue. — David Seabury

Since childhood at my mother's knee, I have believed in honor, ethics and right living as its own reward. I find a very small minority who agree with me on that premise.

Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

What does not corrupt a man's heart cannot corrupt his life, or do him any lasting harm.

Don't make a noise for your actions, let your actions speak for you.

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins caused by the lack of it.

Some have it that patience is actually despair dressed as a virtue.

Virtue leads straight to transformation; transformation leads instantly to happily ever after.

I don't mean you inspire people with how brave you are or any bullshit like that. I mean you are mindful, and mindful is contagious. You have perspective, so the people around you seek some too. Your effort is apparent, which reminds people of its virtue and necessity.

Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue.

The friend of order has made half his way to virtue.

Who is open without levity; generous without waste; secret without craft; humble without meanness; bold without insolence; cautious without anxiety; regular, yet not formal; mild, yet not timid; firm, yet not tyrannical--is made to pass the ordeal of honor, friendship, virtue.

The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.

The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.

Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity.

Humility with energy is often mistaken for pride.

It seems that many people who are deficient in character have an overabundance of charm. I

We do some things because we should, whether it feels good or not. Nonetheless, doing what we should ought not necessarily feel bad.

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.