Quotes about Virtue
You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.
— St. Augustine
The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue!
— Thomas a Kempis
Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.
— Harold S. Kushner
The true guide of life is to do what is right.
— Winston Churchill
Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.
— Ayn Rand
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.
— Edwin Hubbell Chapin
When private virtue is hazarded on the perilous cast of expediency, the pillars of the republic, however apparent their stability, are infected with decay at the very centre.
— Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Men are only as great as they are kind.
— Elbert Hubbard
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly.112 They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own—not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me.
— Arianna Huffington