Virtuous Habits Quotes

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.

The most perfect education ... is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent.

I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.

To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous.