Action Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Virtuous behavior is when one's motivations are aligned with one's reasoned aims: to do what one knows is best and to do it gladly.

— Doctor Anil Sinha

“As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes…

— Maitreya Upanishad

“What determines our being virtuous is largely the absence of opportunity to be otherwise”

— Eric Nicol

Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so…

— Isadora Duncan

The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful;…

— Confucius

All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles…

— Charles Inglis

When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults.

— Pope Agapetus I

I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.

— Frances Wright

Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.

— James Gould Cozzens

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

— Thomas Chalmers

“When one does ‘Everywhere Adjust’, one is said to have completely attained the talk of the Vitrags (The Enlightened Ones).”

— Dada Bhagwan

It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox