Quotes about Virtue
I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.
— Mark Twain
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.
— St. Augustine
Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.
— Joseph Addison
There is a very good thing about hating evil. If you hate evil, that's all you will hate
— Dennis Prager
Everybody has an instinctive desire to do good things and avoid evil. But that desire is sterile as long as we have no experience of what it means to be good.
— Thomas Merton
Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.
— CS Lewis
It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil.
— Brigham Young
We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.
— Desmond Tutu
We all must try to be good.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves.
— Henry David Thoreau
All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
— Henry David Thoreau