Quotes about Virtue
A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.
— George Washington
Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.
— St. John Chrysostom
Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.
— CS Lewis
A good character is the best tombstone.
— Charles Spurgeon
Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.
— CS Lewis
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
— Cicero
If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.
— Diane von Furstenberg
There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.
— Marcus Aurelius
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
— Thomas Paine
Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.
— CS Lewis
God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
— Teresa of Avila
For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.
— Publilius Syrus