Quotes about Virtue
Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
- Andrew Jackson
To seek the highest good is to live well.
- St. Augustine
It is better to die well than to live badly.
- Jan Hus
Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us - and to maintain. That's because without humility, it's not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.
- Joyce Meyer
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
- St. Augustine
It is a much nobler thing to be a good wife than to be Miss America. It is a greater achievement to establish a Christian home than it is to produce a second-rate novel filled with filth.
- Peter Marshall
Goodness is both an ethical and an esthetic standard.
- Philip Graham Ryken
Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.
- Phillips Brooks
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
- Phillips Brooks
In him was vindicated the greatness of real goodness and the goodness of real greatness.
- Phillips Brooks
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
- Phillips Brooks
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure, and good without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
- Phillips Brooks