Quotes About Virtue

Apathy is ascribed to the modest man, Fraud to the devout, Hypocrisy to the pure, Cruelty to the hero, Hostility to the anchorite, Fawning to the courteous man, Arrogance to the majestic, Garrulity to the eloquent, Impotence to the faithful. Does there exist any virtue Which escapes The slander of wicked men?

A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay.

The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards.

The good man shuns evil and follows good; he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden; he makes his virtues manifest to all; he does not forsake one in adversity; he gives in season: such are the marks of a worthy friend.

The son who delights his father by his good actions; the wife who seeks only her husband?s good; the friend who is the same in prosperity and adversity?these three things are the reward of virtue.

Trees loaded with fruit are bent down; the clouds when charged with fresh rain hang down near the earth: even so good men are not uplifted through prosperity. Such is the natural character of the liberal.

So this holy life, bhikkhus, does not have gain, honour, and renown for its benefit, or the attainment of virtue for its benefit, or the attainment of concentration for its benefit, or knowledge and vision for its benefit. But it is this unshakeable deliverance of mind that is the goal of this holy life, its heartwood, and its end.

A good person can make another person good it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society other persons will also be good.

Do not praise an undeserving man because of his riches.

Righteousness exalteth a nation.

Blessed are they who maintain justice, who constantly do what is right.

When a man walks in integrity and justice, happy are his children after him.

Wealth is useless on the day of wrath, but virtue saves from death.

That said, Fatal Vision does have a major virtue. McGinniss is genuinely obsessed with his story … with that story. That's the flaw of the book; McGinniss is so obsessed with his material that he doesn't know when to shut up about it.

Character is the container for blessing.

But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

Bill O'Reilly

Character is power."1 Booker T. Washington

the only thing worth living for is the good. That's why we've got to make sure we pass it on.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Though my conduct on the 10th of August 1792 was the act of my life of which I have most reason to be proud, I will here merely do homage to the worthy martyrs of the national sovereignty and the sworn laws, who, while they supported constitutional royalty, manifested the highest degree of republican virtue.

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.

A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.

We live by the golden rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.