Quotes about Virtue

By turns our purity inspires and our impurity casts us down.

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

You who govern public affairs, what need have you to employ punishments? Love virtue, and the people will be virtuous. The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass—the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Virtue does not remain as an abandoned orphan; it must of necessity have neighbors.

Along with every right thing to do is a right way to do it.

Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness.

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.

Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself.

The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.

Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.