Quotes about Virtue
To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
— John Adams
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.
— Thomas Jefferson
A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.
— George Washington
Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.
— St. John Chrysostom
Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.
— CS Lewis
A good character is the best tombstone.
— Charles Spurgeon
Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.
— CS Lewis
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
— Cicero
If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.
— Diane von Furstenberg
There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.
— Marcus Aurelius
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
— Thomas Paine