Virtuous Quotes

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.

Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle.

A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.

When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.

I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me.

The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.

Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.

There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?

A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.

Conversion comes as we live pure and virtuous lives and enjoy the companionship of the Holy Ghost.

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

As a whole forest becomes fragrant by the existence of a single tree with sweet-smelling blossoms in it, so a family becomes famous by the birth of a virtuous son.

An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.

My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.

The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.

People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.

If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.

I shall say, that I feel myself virtuous, because my soul is at rest.

Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.

Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.

Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament.

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

When our souls shall leave this dwelling, the glory of one fair and virtuous action is above all the 'scutcheons on our tomb, or silken banners over us.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.

For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.

God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.

The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.

Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.

The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims.

You're fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous.

No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

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

It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.

Look within. The heart is the foundation of virtue; and it is for eternity ready to do virtuous works.