Quotes about Virtue
Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with … making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself.
— LM Montgomery
All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.
— Francis de Sales
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.
— Thomas Jefferson
Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
— Ronald Reagan
You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.
— CS Lewis
The love of truth is an act of the spirit.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Right living is a way to right thinking.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
One should always do the good, even though it is not done for its own sake.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
— Abraham Lincoln
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
If I do good, I feel good...If I do bad, I feel bad
— Abraham Lincoln
Kindness is thrown away upon the evil.
— Aesop