Quotes about Virtue
Anger, [Evagrius] wrote, is given to us by God to help us confront true evil. We err when we use it casually, against other people, to gratify our own desires for power or control.
— Kathleen Norris
Who can be good, if not made so by loving? —St. Augustine
— Kathleen Norris
There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
— CS Lewis
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.
— CS Lewis
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
— CS Lewis
Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.
— CS Lewis
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
— Calvin Coolidge
The love of money is the root of all virtue.
— George Bernard Shaw
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
— George Bernard Shaw
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
— George Bernard Shaw
Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.
— George Eliot
there was only one aristocracy, that of decency, and that this was not inherited or bought with money or titles, but was only gained through good deeds.
— Isabel Allende