Quotes about Virtue
He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.
- David Jeremiah
Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?
- John Milton
The core problem is not that we are too passionate about bad things, but that we are not passionate enough about good things.
- Larry Crabb
To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
- John Adams
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.
- Thomas Jefferson
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