Quotes About Virtue

And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

Don't be evil- apparently people like it better than "Be good".

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

It's so much easier to do good than to be good.

In dealing with good people one should be magnanimous; in dealing with bad people one should be strict. In dealing with average people one should combine magnanimity and strictness.

The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.

Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.

When a person tells others "Be good," he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not.

There is no adversity that cannot be overcome by good character.