Buddha Quotes

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.

Virtue is indeed its own reward.

One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse. . . . The nobler sort of man pays special attention to nine points. He is anxious to see clearly, to hear distinctly, to be kindly in his looks, respectful in his demeanor, conscientious in his speech, earnest in his affairs. When in doubt, he is careful to inquire; when in anger, he thinks of the consequences; when offered an opportunity for gain, he thinks only of his duty.

If you want to be good, all you've got to do is be good.

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.

Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.

There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.

Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.

Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished before thy death?

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.

Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.

Virtue is her own reward.

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

Virtue is no empty echo.

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.

Have you ever noticed that good people sleep better, but bad people seem to have more fun when they're awake?

Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.