Quotes on Virtue and Virtuous conduct
Wholesome virtuous behavior progressively leads to the foremost. ~ Buddha (AN10.1)
When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. ~ Swami Satchidananda If you do right, irrespective of what the other does, it will slow down the mind. ~ Rajini Menon |
What is the meaning of "virtue" in the above quotes?
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If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won’t be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ironizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded.
Socrates |
Truth, as it exists in all the world, is of thirteen kinds. The forms that Truth assumes are impartiality, self-control, forgiveness, modesty, endurance, goodness , renunciation, contemplation, dignity, fortitude, compassion and abstention from injury. ~ Mahabharatha
Sincerity and Truth are the basis of every virtue. ~ Confucius. I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valuable than a hundred original thoughts. ~ William Benton Clulow |
For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy. ~ Bertrand Russell I need to be a mother to my mind, teaching it to think the right kind of thoughts. Even when everything is going well, I need to train the mind. Taking one positive thought every day and spending time with it brings good results. This training makes the mind obedient at the time of need and allows me to be positive even in the most negative situations. ~ Dadi Janki ( Prajapita Brahmakumaris) |
"Truthfulness alone is the spiritual discipline in Kali Yuga" - Ramakrishna
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Truthfulness means to speak the truth in a pleasing way, as declared by great sages. ~ Krishna ( Uddhava Gita) Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady. Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon’s knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda There is a bond between love and words of sweetness. ~ Guru Nanak Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth. ~ Hesiod |
Desires slay patience. ~ Vidura (Mahabharatha)
If you have patience, then you'll also have love. Patience leads to love. ~ Mata Amritanandamayi Patience leads to love. If you forcefully open the petals of a bud, you won't be able to enjoy its beauty and fragrance. Only when it blossoms by following its natural course, will the beauty and fragrance of a flower unfold. ~ Mata Amritanandamayi Patience is all the strength that a person needs. ~ Sai Baba Our patience will achieve more than our force. ~ Edmund Burke Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting. ~ Joyce Meyer Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time. ~ Jon Kabat Zinn |
Feel grateful for your very existence and all that you have received. This will bring you a flood of prosperity and happiness. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. ~ Eckhart Tolle For anything that has happened or not happened, feel grateful, thankful and happy about it. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Your mantra is thank you. Just keep saying thank you. Don't explain. Don't complain. Just say thank you. Say thank you to Existence. ~ Mooji Take every opportunity to celebrate, then you feel great and full - grateful. Celebration reminds you of the fullness of the moment. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Gratitude is an essential part of being present. When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously. ~ Eckhart Tolle |
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. ~ John C. Maxwell 90% of problems in life arise due to deficiencies in our behavior and attitude. By plugging these deficiencies our life will be happier and more peaceful than now. ~ Mata Amritanandamayi Education is culturing our behavior and attitude. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar |
You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
=Emmet Fox |
An ethical life purifies the mind. By living an ethical life, one progresses towards the realization of the Divine. ~ Sri Anandamayi Ma Behavior influences consciousness. Right behavior means right consciousness. ~ Taisen Deshimaru ( Zen Buddhist master and founder of Association Zen Internationale ) Our attitude here and now influences the entire environment: our words, actions, ways of holding and moving ourselves, they all influence what happens around us and inside us. The actions of every instant, every day, must be right. ~ Taisen Deshimaru Every gesture is important. How we eat, how we put on our clothes, how we wash ourselves, how we go to the toilet, how we put our things away, how we act with other people, family, wife, work - how we are: totally, in every single gesture. ~ Taisen Deshimaru |
Ethical discipline is a necessary pre-requisite for philosophical enquiry and Self-realisation. Ethics is an enquiry into the nature of good and is concerned with an analysis of the concepts of good and bad, virtue and vice, right and wrong. ~ Swami Sivananda Ethics lead to restraint of the lower self and thereby the mind is calmed. Through calmness of mind, discrimination dawns and one knows the Self. Without ethical perfection there is no spiritual progress. ~ Swami Sivananda |
Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action. ~ Ramana Maharshi The result of spiritual practice should be our inner transformation into better human beings. After practicing for months or years, we should be less prone to anger, pride, and jealousy. Our practice should lead us to a vaster, calmer mind. ~ Shechem Rabjam Rinpoche |
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Once upon a time an eagle desired to teach virtues and wisdom to the frogs. With time they grew insolent, and considering themselves better than the bird began to criticize its ways. The eagle then flew away to the sky and abandoned the frogs in the swamp. |
The Evagrian Ascetical System
I Treatise on the Practical Life (Text) -- 9 76 Angels rejoice when vice is diminished; demons, however, when virtue is diminished. The former are servants of mercy and charity; the latter are subjects of anger and hatred. And the first, when they approach, fill us with spiritual contemplation; the second, when they draw near, cast the soul into shameful imaginations. 77 The virtues do not stop the attacks of the demons but they preserve us unharmed. |
Once you overcome the hatred within your mind, you will discover that in the world outside, there is no longer any such thing as even a single enemy. ~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche We may shout, ‘Let there be peace!’ but this won’t really bring peace. Peace will appear in the world around us only when each individual learns to tame the disturbances arising within his or her own mind. ~ Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche . We find in others what is in us. If we always find mud around us, it proves that there is mud somewhere in us. ~ Mira Alfassa When it is impossible for anger to arise within you, you find no outside enemies anywhere. An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside. ~ Thubten Zopa Rinpoche |
Every child should be taught mental hygiene - that is nonviolence. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Nonviolence aims at doing no harm to living beings. Compassion aims at doing good to all beings. ~ Amit Ray Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness. ~ Amit Ray At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. ~ Martin Luther King The more we practice nonviolence in our words, thoughts and actions the more peaceful will be our inner state. ~ Amit Ray Nonviolence is the way to listen to the inner voice. ~ Amit Ray Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone. ~ Mahatma Gandhi If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by courage, awareness, tranquility and peace nature will serve you.~ Amit Ray Non-violence is more powerful than violence. Nature eliminates violent animals bit by bit. ~ Amit Ray |
A strong mind is cultivated by living moral values. All outer actions start gathering a dazzling polish, once your mental values change. A morally strong person spends less of his mental powers in facing the day to day problems of life. ~ Swami Chinmayananda
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. ~ Ralph waldo Emerson Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. ~ William Butler Yeats |
Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial. ~ Buddha ( Dhammapada 163)
Sin is easy to commit. ~ Ashoka If there is a right thing and a wrong thing, it takes longer for the right thing to be implemented, while the wrong thing will be implemented immediately. ~ Dada Bhagavan The nature of the mind is such it ignores all the good and holds on to the negative. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar The mind naturally tends towards evil deeds. It is lethargic in doing good work. That is why I say that perseverance and tenacity are necessary for success in all works.~ Sri Sharada Devi The nature of the mind is to be easy-going and indolent. It loves to shirk responsibility and to get attached to the senses and their objects. A careless man gets attached to sense-pleasures and becomes weak and stupid. ~ Swami Narayanananda |
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Swami Vivekananda |
Do you know the ego feels its existence in negativity and in positivity the ego doesn't feel so strongly? The ego pulls the mind back to negativity to feel its existence. ~ Baba Hari Dass
Go back to your past: how many bad events of life do you remember and how many good events? You will find 90% are bad and more clear. 10% are good but like in a fog. ~ Baba Hari Dass In good things, the ego doesn't feel its strength of individuality as strongly as in doing bad things. If you do bad things, the ego is right there in the present. ~ Baba Hari Dass The tendency of the mind is to hold on to something negative. If ten compliments and one insult are given, the mind holds on to the negative - that one insult. So when we know this, we are already one step out of it.~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Time and again, we must realize: 'I am going on a negative trip' and immediately come back to the here and now. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar If we reflect on your past, you will notice that all bad things that happened to you appear as if they happened yesterday and the memory of good things appear as if in a fog.~ Baba Hari Dass Our ego feels its presence more deeply in pain or in pain causing events, thoughts, emotions. So we always think about such things which bring unhappiness. In that unhappiness, we feel 'its happening to me' even though it happened 10-20 years ago.~ Baba Hari Dass So pain and suffering are the expressions of the ego caused by desires and attachments. ~ Baba Hari Dass Desire to be happy is a natural thing in all human beings. But the mind likes to be in pain by bringing the past memories and not seeing any progress in the future. If we dwell on the negative side of the mind, then we can't be happy in any situation. ~ Baba Hari Dass Human ego is very attracted to negative qualities, so it needs much austerity to develop positive qualities. ~ Baba Hari Dass |
It is the nature of the human mind that negative thoughts cause overthinking. When we dwell on someone’s good qualities, the mind remains calm and there are few thoughts. But think about something you do not like in someone and there will be a long train of thoughts. - Sister Shivani ( Prajapita Brahmakumaris ) Understand that you are ready for moksha (enlightenment), when you can see your own mistakes. Without awareness, no one can see his own faults. But if he needed to, he can easily see two to five hundred or so faults in others. ~ Ambalal Muljibhai Patel ( Dada Bhagwan ) |
There is the old saying that “The virtuous rest in virtue; the wise desire virtue.”
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James Allen |
When the mind is strong, external difficulties stay external – they do not shake me inside and rob me of my stability. The mind stays peaceful, free from sorrow and worry. ~ Dadi Janki (Administrative head of Prajapita Brahmakumaris)
No matter what is happening around you, pay attention to making and keeping your inner stability strong. ~ Dadi Janki What gives this kind of stability? You must have seen a tower – to reach so high, it has a deep foundation. You need to become introverted, to go deep inside, and make yourself so strong that even if the whole world fluctuates, you remain stable.~ Dadi Janki Make yourself so strong that even if the whole world fluctuates, you remain stable. ~ Sister Jayanti Kripalani ( Prajapita Brahmakumaris) The problem is as big as the amount of pain we create. If we are stable, the problem appears to be very small and easy to face. ~ Sister Shivani Verma ( Prajapita Brahmakumaris) When we face problems with a cool mind, problems become opportunities. ~ Sister Shivani Verma |
Do virtuous deeds, as this will make your intellect pure, and the supremely blissful Satchidananda (Self) will be reflected in this refined intellect. You will overflow with such joyous contentment that you will spontaneously share it with one and all.~ Anandmurti Gurumaa Unless you have a morality, ethical principles that you are following with your bodily action, vocal action, mental action or in a certain non-violent, disciplined way, you are not able to meditate. If you do not meditate you cannot train the mind to concentrate. And without training the mind, you cannot awake the wisdom. ~ Samdong Rinpoche |
Sin repeatedly perpetrated, destroys intelligence; and the man who has lost intelligence, repeatedly commits sin.
Virtue repeatedly practised, enhances intelligence; and the man whose intelligence has increased, enhances intelligence; and the man whose intelligence has increased repeatedly practises virtue. ~ Vidura Neeti (Mahabharatha) Saintliness is not dumbness! Divine perceptions are not incapacitating! The active expression of virtue gives rise to the keenest intelligence. ~ Sri Yukteshwar ( Autobiography of a Yogi) |
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. ~ Plato
If we wish to accomplish anything of value in our life, we will have to ensure that we do not allow our lower nature the liberty to manifest itself. - Swami Mukundananda Discipline is a choice. It's simply consistently choosing the hard right over the easy wrong. ~ Rory Vaden Anything worthwhile in life can be had only by going uphill. ~ Swami Mukundananda Successful people have all had to do things they didn't feel like doing in order to get where they are. ~ Rory Vaden |
You must abstain from thinking about some one when you cannot think well of him. ~ Mira alfassa
Never grumble. All sorts of forces enter you when you grumble and they pull you down. ~ Mira alfassa If you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own. ~ Sarada Devi Best way to practice witness state is not to criticize anyone, not to criticize. I've seen people who are all the time criticizing others. They cannot criticize themselves, so they start criticizing other. ~ Nirmala Devi |
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