Quotes about Virtue

The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.

Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.

You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.

The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life.

Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue!

Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.

The true guide of life is to do what is right.

Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.

When private virtue is hazarded on the perilous cast of expediency, the pillars of the republic, however apparent their stability, are infected with decay at the very centre.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.