Virtuous Quotes

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.

...the wise providence of God orders our affairs in many different ways and lovingly bestows on each one of us what is appropriate and profitable both for virtuous deeds and the mysteries of faith.

All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

You have a great destiny before you. This is your moment! I truly believe that one virtuous young woman, led by the Spirit, can change the world.

There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.

Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit Is feathered often times with heavenly words, And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.

I thank god that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.

Money and power are not your true rewards. Your name, your principles, your impeccable standards, your virtuous conduct, and remains an influence with others long after you are gone.

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.

To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.

The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.

The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

In all this world, I pray thee, who Is virtuous, heroic, true?

If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be. The more subsidies you have, the less self reliant people will be.

Do not have as friends harmful people, the wise person does not associate with the worst of people. Have as friends virtuous people, the wise person associates with the best of people.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman.

Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous.

Every virtuous man is free.

Seek the companionship of virtuous friends, not virtual friends.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.

There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.

All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own.

Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

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.

No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.

Keep your analysis pure and virtuous.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, 'I can be anyone.

Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people .

All in all, the framers would probably agree that it's better to impeach too often than too seldom. If presidents can't be virtuous, they should at least be nervous.

The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.

The virtuous shall have the power to revive and live again. All pure and holy spirits live on in heavenly places, and in course of time they are again sent down to inhabit righteous bodies