Quotes About Virtue

I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.

You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.

All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.

What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community

All are called to holiness, and holy people alone can renew humanity.

Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!

If you are good life is good.

Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.

Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.

Absolutely. Justice served with a side of pineapple. That's what I'm here for.

I wouldn't dignify it with the name immoral.

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.

If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.

I thank God that I have lived to see my country independent and free. She may long enjoy her independence and freedom if she will. It depends on her virtue.

Even if everyone elseIs not doing good,I alone will.Even if everyone elseis doing wrong,I alone will not.

The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.

Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.