Quotes about Virtue

Goodness is both an ethical and an esthetic standard.

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

In him was vindicated the greatness of real goodness and the goodness of real greatness.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure, and good without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive.' I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials; then it is that true faith appears much more precious than gold, and upon this account is found to praise and honour and glory.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

It is by means of our own victories, if we are not regenerated, that the work of Nemesis is wrought: doom breaks from the shell of our very virtue.