Quotes About Virtue

When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad. I sure identify with that.

Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I feel to be evil is evil. Conscience is the best of casuists.

Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good.

I'd like to play nothing but good characters.

Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.

I believe there's things all around us that make you do good things and some that make you do bad things.

To play a good guy is nice because in a way, he is so open for answers.

It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.

Let good people sin. Give virtue to rotters.

It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.

A good deed is a good deed.

Once you become a good person, then you have a chance of becoming a good basketball player.

I know who I am. And I know I'm a good person.

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.

I never could be good when I was not happy.

Heaven's Way gives no favors. It always remains with good people.

I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.

It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

... in a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin.

There are good characters and bad characters.

I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.

It matters not to be a Jewish or a Muslim or a Christian! What really matters is to be good by heart, to be honest and fair!