Virtuous Life Quotes

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

    Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.38, Cato Institute
  • 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.

  • Just as the Salt Lake Temple took 40 years to build, stone by stone, you are building a virtuous life, step by step.

    Lakes   Years   Stones  
  • The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.

    Life   Fate   Men  
    Edward Young, John Mitford (1852). “The poetical works of Edward Young”, p.34
  • He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

    Country   Men   Feelings  
    Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1773-1777: 1773-1777”
  • It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life.

  • The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.

    Children   Giving   Goal  
  • 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.

    John Stuart Mill (1950). “Utilitarianism, liberty, and representative government”
  • 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)

    Quiet   Enough   Virtuous  
    Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.164, Everyman's Library
  • The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

    Honesty   Integrity   War  
    Speech on the twenty-third anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1885
  • Live a virtuous life, help everyone and spread joy wherever you go.

    Joy   Helping   Virtuous  
  • ...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

    A. C. Grayling (2004). “Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God”, p.4, Oxford University Press, USA
  • To one who has led a virtuous life, to sin is the easiest thing in the world. No experience of unpleasant consequences grits that smooth sliding fall, no recollection of disillusionment blurs that pure desire.

    Fall   Desire   World  
    Sylvia Townsend Warner (1988). “Selected stories of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Vintage
  • To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now.

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

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

    Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.255, Simon and Schuster
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