Quotes about Virtue

Wretched, in a word, because she had behaved as any healthy and virtuous English girl ought to behave and not in some other, abnormal, extraordinary way.

The people who make wars, the people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, the really evil people in a word- these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears - that's what soma is.

That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do.

He would have liked to behave well, but he did not know how to stop behaving badly.

That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books. If one is different, one is bound to be lonely. Beauty is attractive and we don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones.

And that,' put in the Director sententiously, 'that is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

Character is what you are in the dark.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.