Quotes about Virtue
You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to do good.
- James Faust
Happiness is a moral obligation.
- Dennis Prager
Purity of morals is the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.
- George Washington
There is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.
- George Washington
If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.
- Aristotle
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
- Joseph Addison
For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.
- Cicero
There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good.
- Hannah Whitall Smith
All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.
- Samuel Johnson
If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.
- Thomas Jefferson
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
- Epictetus
Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.
- St. Basil