Quotes about Virtue

And no lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.

4 the first time, I will avoid anything that makes me suffer, because suffering is not a virtue.. I will not complain about life, saying, Everything is always the same and I have nothin' 2 change it. Because I'm livin' this day as if it were my first and, while it lasts, I will discover things that I didn't even know were there.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.

Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.

To lessen your fear and regard to the opinion of the world, think how soon the world will disregard you, and have no more thought or concern about you, than about the poorest animal that died in a ditch...Is it therefore worth your while to lose the smallest degree of virtue, for the sake of pleasing so bad a master, and so false a friend, as the world is?

the reason why you see no real mortification or self-denial, no eminent charity, no profound humility, no heavenly affection, no true contempt of the world, no Christian meekness, no sincere zeal, no eminent piety in the common lives of Christians, is this, because they do not so much as intend to be exact and exemplary in these virtues.

True Christianity is nothing but the continual dependence upon God through Christ for all life, light, and virtue; and the false religion of Satan is to seek that goodness from any other source. So

The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.

Wickedness consists in the very hesitation about an act, even though it be not perpetrated.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.