Quotes About Virtue

It's funny how we hate to face realities. I knew a commuter once who rode in town every day on the 8.13. But he used to call it the 7.73. He said it made him feel more virtuous.

Indeed, if the good life entails nothing more than the joyless performance of good deeds, then it is not a life that is lived but merely one that is ploddingly enacted. How can we urge good character upon individuals and devise strategies for encouraging character if there is not an experiential payoff?

Vitality directly reflects eudaimonia—the inherent fulfillment produced by virtuecongruent activity—and reminds us that fulfillment is not an abstract judgment but an experienced psychological state. Vitality is how self-actualization feels. Vitality is a way to describe the engagement and absorption of flow.

For I prophecy that men will learn the use of their knees. For every thing that can be done in that posture (upon the knees) is better so done than otherwise. For I prophecy that they will understand the blessing and virtue of the rain. For rain is exceedingly good for the human body.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

Train up your mind in the way it should think. So when it has thought,it shall not be far from good.

Wickedness consists in the very hesitation about an act, even though it be not perpetrated.

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves even in those books which they write in contempt of glory inscribe their names.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

The eminent virtue of calumny is that it produces a vacuum around you without your having to raise a finger.

Out of a clean heart comes a clean life and a clean body.

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors....But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Virtue is indeed its own reward.

The world only stays in balance when good people do what's right.

We believe in the living spirit and good deeds of heroes, not in their mistakes.

There are no losers in the world of honorable men.

There is no password for a clear conscience.

We do not tolerate evil in any form. We live a life to counter evil.

You may not be known or popular all over the world, but by doing honorable acts and decent gestures each day you are already famous.

Do what is right. Uphold what is right. Recite your prayer every night. Handle everything with care. Acknowledge everybody's help. Make good memories of yourself to everybody.