Quotes about Virtue
become good. It would become beautiful. It would make us happy, and not with the future happiness of political promising. It would make us happy as soon as we began to do it.
- Wendell Berry
And I reckon them that are good must suffer for it the same as them that are bad.
- William Faulkner
Life wasn't made to be easy on folks: they wouldn't ever have any reason to be good and die.
- William Faulkner
Which explains a lot, having likewise noticed in my time that the goddess in charge of virtue seems to be the same one in charge of luck, if not of folly also.
- William Faulkner
You see, if only people didn't refuse quick and hard to think about next Monday, Virtue wouldn't have such a hard and thankless time of it.
- William Faulkner
Total commitment is about being wise and smart, not necessarily being noble or virtuous. It's not so much about self-denial but about logic and common sense. It's not so much about what you lose; it's about what you gain.
- Chip Ingram
Goodness is the only investment which never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau
What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.
- Henry David Thoreau
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.
- Henry Ward Beecher
God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
- Henry Ward Beecher