1,046 Quotes About Virtue

For worldly success, we need virtues that make us loved and faults that make us feared.

Success equals achievement and achievements equal to happiness. That's the universal truth.

I ask myself and I ask my children,To ask themselves every day, “What did I learn today?”- From Poem " Everyday Learning

The modern world has forgotten the necessity of encouraging men to be better. They speak of sick men or healthy men, of interesting people or uninteresting people; they never, or seldom, indicate that there is and must be an interior and spiritual improvement in man before any of the glowing coals of humanity can be reached. They have cultivated everything but the goodness of man. The result of such shallowness is everywhere apparent.

A man without regrets cannot be cured.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.

...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement....

The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.