Quotes about Virtue

His lips felt dry with a literal thirst for righteousness, which was like a glass of ice-cold water on a table in another man's room.

It is astonishing the sense of innocence that goes with sin--only the hard and careful man and the saint are free of it.

There was not much one could do; he decided at least to be good.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

I don't think it matters if there is a god or not. I've met people who believe in God that are good and that are bad. And I've met people who don't believe in God that are good and that are bad. So, just be good. I'm good. Not cos I think I'll go to heaven but because when I do something bad, I feel bad. And when I do something good, I feel good.

Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with … making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself.

All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

The love of truth is an act of the spirit.

Right living is a way to right thinking.