Browsing Topic Best Virtuous Life Quotes

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

One should not say that it is impossible to reach a virtuous life; but one should say that it is not easy. Nor do those who have reached it find it easy to maintain.

Conversion comes as we live pure and virtuous lives and enjoy the companionship of the Holy Ghost.

To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.

She lived, we’ll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)

Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction…. In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism, which has been gradually compromised away into one of legality. It holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as the appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life – in this falling far below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to human morality an essentially selfish character…. It is essentially a doctrine of passive obedience; it inculcates submission to all authorities found established.

It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life.

Live a virtuous life, help everyone and spread joy wherever you go.

It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.

All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth’s our sires’; our virtues be our own.

…mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.