Virtuous Quotes

Virtuous Quote of the day

For this purpose was I born, let all virtuous people understand. I was born to advance righteousness, to emancipate the good, and to destroy all evil-doers root and branch.

The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who do not know their own virtue.

I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.

You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion.

One beautiful diamond is worth more than a mountain of stones, and one virtuous act of acquiescence and submission is better than an abundance of good works done for others.

A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.

The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on to a hundred.

In my idea General Washington is the greatest man; for I look upon him as the most virtuous.

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life.

The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband's private mill.

No pretense stop wasting my time. A virtuous woman is really hard to find.

I am the mother of the wicked, as I am the mother of the virtuous. Never fear. Whenever you are in distress, say to yourself, ‘I have a mother.

It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

One should not say that it is impossible to reach a virtuous life; but one should say that it is not easy. Nor do those who have reached it find it easy to maintain.

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.

Americans rouse - be unanimous, be virtuous, be firm, exert your courage, trust in Heaven, and nobly defy the enemies both of God and man!

The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

There is no more beautiful sight than a young woman who glows with the light of the spirit who is confident and courageous because she is virtuous.

The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.

Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.

Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.

Non-criminal sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for the virtuous woman except in the rarest of cases.

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

Whenever we practise meditation, whether or not our meditation is clear, we are performing a virtuous mental action that is a cause of our future happiness and peace of mind.

The "kingdom of heaven" to which he referred was the state of God-consciousness, not the beautiful astral heavens that most people visualize, where virtuous souls go after death.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.

If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the way. But if you cannot find Friend or master to go with you, Travel on alone.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.