Quotes About Virtue

The most excellent of those who perform good deeds are those who most often remember God in all situations.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

Your actions toward others are your bank deposit. It's easy to be good to nice people, but try to be caring to everyone. It is a test.

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

It's better to be a good person than a famous person.

Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris

Be persistent in good actions.

Good people strengthen themselves ceaselessly

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.

Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.

We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.

Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

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

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one.

Works make not the heart good, but a good heart makes the works good.

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.