Quotes About Virtue

Time is the best preserver of righteous men.

If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.

One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

That's insanity. We must be good all the time.

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

Somebody has to be prepared to be the good guy from time to time in order for the human race to prosper, though most people don't want it to be them.

In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.

Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.

There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.

Are you going to show integrity only when someone is watching you - or are you going to show it all the time?

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue.

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.