Quotes about Virtue
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
— Herman Melville
Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.
— CS Lewis
Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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.
— Stephen Covey
Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.
— St. Augustine
You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.
— St. Augustine
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.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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!
— Thomas a Kempis
Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.
— Harold S. Kushner
The true guide of life is to do what is right.
— Winston Churchill
Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.
— Ayn Rand
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.
— Edwin Hubbell Chapin