Quotes About Virtue

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character.

Forasmuch as many people study more to have knowledge than to live well therefore ofttimes they err and bring forth little fruit or none.

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace.

Knowledge is truthful only if it's based in morality.

That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

Teach honesty by all means - you do know what it is, don't you?

Knowledge cannot be maintained without character.

When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.

Being good is good business

Integrity - No one will ever use conjuctions talking about you. "He is a good preacher... but..."

There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.

Uriah proved to be a better man drunk than David was sober.

When you lead the wise, walk behind them.When you lead the virtuous, walk beside them.When you lead the imprudent, walk in front of them.