Quotes About Virtue

To the degree that a person thinks and acts in accordance with God's nature and commands, he is moral. Otherwise, there is no moral difference between altruism and selfishness; virtue and vice are meaningless concepts; rape and murder are not crimes, but amoral events.

Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.

You shouldn't expect a thank-you in life just for doing the right thing.

A mind aware of its own rectitude.

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Nishkâma Karma, or work without desire or attachment.

By appreciation we make excellence in others our own property.

The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.†

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

He who is merely just is severe.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

The world has become a better place in which to live because of persons who have made it a habit to try to do the right thing only because it was right.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall Desert and Accomplishment meet Despising, Detraction, and Lies? What shall Virtue do to meet Brute Force? There are so many answers and so contradictory; and such differences for those on the one hand who meet questions similar to this once a year or once a decade, and those who face them hourly and daily.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.