Quotes About Virtuous Living

#1. He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.

Thomas Carlyle

#2. It takes about four days of virtuous living to create a little weight loss. That also happens to be the time required to get used to eating less. In other words, if you can get past day three of a fitness regimen, things improve.

Martha Beck

#3. Algebras are geometric facts which are proved.

Omar Khayyam

#4. Hatred and jealousy must find a tongue; only the creatures which never feel those things have no need to talk.

Tanith Lee

#5. Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.

Calvin Trillin

#6. Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#7. How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.

Evelyn Waugh

#8. 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

#9. It can be said that the first half of the marathon is 20 miles long; the second half, 6.2 more.

Hal Higdon

#10. We got a lot of shit to work through."
"Yeah," I agreed. "But once we do, we're going to be amazing.

Jay McLean

#11. All the other virtues, and the living of a virtuous life, depend on them. If you took an introductory philosophy course in college, they were probably translated from the Greek as courage, justice, temperance, and prudence.

Charles Murray

#12. The hobgoblin of a little mind may be the genius of a great one.

Hermester Barrington

#13. When I broke my knee, no one cared how I was; they just wanted me to get better and come back to gymnastics to win more medals for their country.

Lavinia Agache

#14. I do hope to bring Jane Whitefield back before too long.

Thomas Perry

#15. The "virtue hypothesis" claims that living a virtuous life makes you happier.

Anonymous

#16. Such is the joy of concluding a day performing duties earnestly leaving ends upon His feet! I have nothing to gain here except virtues, nothing to lose except love, O Lord, I am here to breathe the beauty of life!

Preeth Nambiar

#17. Nature attunes children to receive the coded messages that parents issue how to live a joyful and virtuous life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#18. I want to be able to say, 'you think you're odd, I'm even odder and I made it - you can too!' I want to direct, do more with 'The Dance Scene,' sign artists and just provide opportunities. I'm just getting started and having the time of my life!

Laurieann Gibson

#19. Dying is not the real tragedy, Shelley."
"It's not?"
"Forgetting is.

Samantha Sotto

#20. My style icon actually is my three sisters. I love the way they dress and the way they put things together. I definitely get most of my style from them.

Kendall Jenner

#21. A look into the Human Mind..of how we perceive..How can we see beauty in and around us..Not the correction of evil or pursuit of the virtuous..BUT..pleasure that resides in the Sense of Self !! A Self living in a state of 'nothingness' and beauty as it lies there..from that place! Simple and Deft

Abha Maryada Banerjee