Quotes about virtue

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

— Mark Twain

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

— Mark Twain

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it.

— Source Unknown

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

— Sir John Vanbrugh

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

— Virgil

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

— Stephen Vizinczey

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

— George Washington

Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office.

— Mae West

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

— Mae West

It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

— Andrew Young

The worse others are the better we should be; when vice is daring, let not virtue be sneaking.

— Matthew Henry

Virtue is doing great things while maintaining a very small sense of self as the doer. It is accumulating merit without attracting attention to oneself... As soon as pride overwhelms us, the merit of our meditation and good deeds is drained away.

— buddhadharma.com

Enjoy the good health. Bring the truth happiness. Care of his own family. Give the peace to all. Firstly, one must discipline and control his own mind. If he can do so, the enlightenment, wisdom and virtue will go to him naturally.

— Buddha

Make foes of bowmen if you must, Never of penmen

— Valluvar

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The time is always right to do what is right.

— King Jr. Martin Luther

Such is the joy of concluding a day performing duties earnestly leaving ends upon His feet! I have nothing to gain here except virtues, nothing to lose except love, O Lord, I am here to breathe the beauty of life!

— Preeth Nambiar