virtuous conduct Quotes

In public, as well as private life, the only way to prevent being ridiculed or censured, is to avoid all ridiculous or wicked measures, and to pursue such only as are virtuous and worthy. If any man thinks he has been ridiculed, upon any of our public theatres, let him examine his actions he will find the cause, let him alter his conduct he will find a remedy

I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty.

Most important is be a good man.

Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

Religion taught us to return good for evil.

Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.

The superior man accords with the course of the Mean. Though he may be all unknown, unregarded by the world, he feels no regret - It is only the sage who is able for this.

Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right; he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.

Our first responsibility in all things is to preserve our goodness of heart - then and only then act.

He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.

Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.

Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.

In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

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.

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.

Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.

Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.

Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

Every man, in proportion to his virtue, considers himself, with respect to the great community of mankind, as the steward and guardian of their interests in the property which he chances to possess. Every man, in proportion to his wisdom, sees the manner in which it is his duty to employ the resources which the consent of mankind has intrusted to his discretion.

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

Purity doesn't happen by accident; it requires obedience to God.

We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented by attack dogs. Beaten down, sickly, virtue has now been allowed to enter in all its tatters and sit in the corner, as long as it doesn't raise its voice.