Quotes About Virtue

It is possible for any man, by good deeds, to enshrine himself as a Saint in the hearts of the people.

The reason most people are bad is because they do not try to be good.

The reason most people are bad is because they do not try to be good. Now, the Nome King had never tried to be good, so he was very bad indeed.

Handsome is as handsome does

The reason most people are bad is because they do not try to be good. L. Frank Baum, The Emerald City of Oz, 1910

But anyway his heart is kind and gentle and that is better than being wise.

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults.

God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

I am of the religion of all those who are brave and good.

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.

The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.

The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people.

One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.

To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

All true religion must stand on true morality.

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.