Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.
Tag: Virtue
Confucius
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue… gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Charles Lamb
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
Seneca
John C. Bogle
Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.
William Shakespeare
Sir Winston Churchill
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
Charles Kingsley
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so
Alexander Pope
Theodore Roosevelt
Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood — the virtues that made America.