Quotes About Virtue

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil and recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own – not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God; while yet, in the highest sense of all, God is Love, and Love is God. Love being the highest principle is the virtue of all virtues; from whence they flow forth.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

"Who lends his money without usury and does not accept a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken."

The warrior stands, ready to defend, ready to fight for those he serves. He is a warrior of virtue, A knight of conscience. He is who we all wish to be.

Happy Wednesday! Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.

Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande.]

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.

It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.