Quotes About Virtue

Pure heart begets pure thoughts.

In the grand scheme of things it makes no difference who is right but rather what's right that counts.

This is not a dirty little secret which was discovered just yesterday. But, if you follow the Golden Rule, good things happen to you and those around you.

A happy life is a virtuous life.

A good tree never seizes to bear good fruits.

Grace is the seed of all goodness.

Beauty is more popular than virtues because it is more visible than virtues.

Heroes are hero no matter if everybody is watching them or nobody watching them.

I was just trying to be a very good human, instead I became a hero.

Duty is sinless.

Don't just do what is required, do what is respected then, at you'll know, you did the right thing even if it works out wrong.

A good tree bears good fruits.

Honourable is right.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face my lad ... and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts ... take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own character and that of the people becomes worse.

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.

Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

Character - not wealth, power, or position - is the supreme word.

With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.