Quotes about Virtue
Everybody has an instinctive desire to do good things and avoid evil. But that desire is sterile as long as we have no experience of what it means to be good.
- Thomas Merton
Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.
- CS Lewis
It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil.
- Brigham Young
We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.
- Desmond Tutu
We all must try to be good.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
- Henry David Thoreau
Once you become a good person, then you have a chance of becoming a good basketball player.
- John Wooden