Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.
The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.
To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person.
Among us, in our part of the country, those who are upright are different from this. The father conceals the misconduct of the son, and the son conceals the misconduct of the father. Uprightness is to be found in this.
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.
I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen.
No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such
Successful people do what is right no matter how they feel, and by doing right, they feel good.
Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage, and determination.
Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.
I never have suspected or sensed a whiff of cheating in any of our Super Bowls.
None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.
Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.
Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
The best companion and helper is admirable morals.
Although genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the product of the brain, the latter of heart-power; and in the long run it is the heart that rules in life.
Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.
Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.
Birth is nothing where virtue is not
No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.
Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are not too nicely to scrutinize motives as long as action is irreproachable. It is enough (and for a worthy man perhaps too much) to deal out its infamy to convicted guilt and declared apostasy.
What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.
Virtue is no empty echo.
If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.
