Quotes About Virtue

Credibility is to be good. You must be good. That's all I ever wanted - to be good at what I did.

Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior.

We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.

The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.

Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.

We all must try to be good.

It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

A fool has not material enough to be good. [Fr., Un sot n'a pas assez d'etoffe pour etre bon.]

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

The real genres: good and bad.

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive.

Set good against evill. [Set good against evil.]

To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.

We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.

If you want to be good, all you've got to do is be good.

It's easier to swoon in pious dreams Than do good actions.

Good people suddenly don't turn bad.

It's very hard to be good. It is self-destructive thinking to think that there is too much good.

As long as you are good you will be great. But, if you cease to be good you will cease to be great.

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.

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

And when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid.

Think good, speak good, and be good.