Top 25 Virtuous Quotes of 71

Marcus Tullius Cicero (1755). “M.T. Cicero, His Offices: Or, His Treatise Concerning the Moral Duties of Mankind; His Cato Major, Concerning the Means of Making Old Age Happy; His Laelius, Concerning Friendship; His Moral Paradoxes; The Vision of Scipio, Concerning a Future State; His Letter Concerning the Duties of a Magistrate. With Notes Historical and Explanatory”, p.53

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

Virtue, Virtuous, Persons

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

Samuel Richardson

Clergymen, Compassionate, Virtuous

Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.13

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

Benjamin Franklin

Happiness, Virtue, Virtuous

Benjamin Franklin, Henry Stueber, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) (1794). “Works of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his life, written by himself : together with essays, humourous, moral & literary, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator : in two volumes”

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

Belle Boyd

Thank God, Bed, Virtuous Woman

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Treasure, Safe, Virtuous Woman

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

Pauline Kael

Tests, Virtuous, Feels

Pauline Kael (1989). “Hooked”, E P Dutton

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

William Law

Wife, Virtuous Woman, Found

Lyndon W. Cook, William Law (1994). “William Law”, Grandin Book Co

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.

Saint Augustine

Desire, Habit, Virtuous

St. Augustine, Saint Augustine, J. F. Shaw (2009). “On Christian Doctrine”, p.8, Courier Corporation

We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we're harder working, not that we're more virtuous - it's that we're luckier.

Nicholas D. Kristof

People, Distinction, Virtuous