Quotes About Virtue

It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.

Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite.

It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

Funny, when i was a little boy I wanted to be good. But I could never seem to manage it somehow. And if you're not good, the good people will throw you to the wolves. So you might as well just be bad

I'm a good person," I said, "because I know what good people are supposed to act like, and I copy them.

It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.

Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason.

I am a good man and I behave well on an everyday basis. It was not a decision of waking up one day and saying "I will be a good person today, problem solved", no, it has to be an everyday thing.

I find good people good And I find bad people good If I am good enough.

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called.

The memory of a good deed lives.

People who can be very good can be very bad too.

Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

The moot question is not that how many persons are of good or not so good character, but who applauds the character truly as the real beauty factor in own and others' lives.

Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.

We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.

It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil.

It is not the same thing to be good and to be kind.