Quotes About Virtue

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

If you are unable to compete with the pious in their good deeds, compete with the sinful in their repentance.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.

The core problem is not that we are too passionate about bad things, but that we are not passionate enough about good things.

To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.

Sexiness is all about your personality, being genuine and confident, and being a good person.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

Hear no evil. See no evil. Speak no evil.

Sincerity causes the smallest of good deeds to become the largest.

In the Way of Heaven, there is no partiality of love; it is always on the side of the good man.

Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

Kings and cabbages go back to compost, but good deeds stay green forever.

A sign that your good deed has been accepted is that you do more good deeds after it.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward? That's not morality, that's just sucking up.

It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

I think good things come to good people.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.