Quotes about Virtue

You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge.

Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet it.

Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.

It is character that communicates most eloquently...In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Only basic goodness gives life to technique.

Many people with secondary greatness—that is, social recognition for their talents—lack primary greatness or goodness in their character. Sooner or later, you'll see this in every long-term relationship they have, whether it is with a business associate, a spouse, a friend, or a teenage child going through an identity crisis. It is character that communicates most eloquently.

Only basic goodness gives life to technique.

Integrity includes but goes beyond honesty.

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

When we value correct principles, we have truth—a knowledge of things as they are.

Just as junk food and lack of exercise can ruin an athlete's condition, those things that are obscene, crude, or pornographic can breed an inner darkness that numbs our higher sensibilities and substitutes the social conscience of "Will I be found out?" for the natural or divine conscience of "What is right and wrong?

Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.