Quotes About Virtue

Humility is not weakness but a quality of strength.

Never underestimate yourself when you do what is right. Never overestimate yourself when you do what is wrong.

Be the character you want to be described as!(In a good way, of course!)

I admire those who do good and expect nothing in return.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm.

It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

The greatest virtue consists in flourishing to the greatest of our capacities.

Titles does not make a man. But the grace of thanks.

Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, doing as you say you would do.

We all have something redeemable in us, no matter how small." - Laura Armstrong, A Human Element

Good is good in the final hour, in the deepest pit – without hope, without witness, without reward. Virtue is only virtue in extremis.

Good character is all about improving your personal moral values to advance to a more desirable state.

Holy fear is to shun evil.

It is better to be kind than to seek much knowledge.

Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one's noble conduct (al-murû'ah).

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.

Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.

You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics.

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

We must ever bear in mind --that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to anticipate or to direct events, but merely to accept them with intelligence.

Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application.