Quotes About Virtue

Being trustworthy requires: Doing the right thing. And doing things right.

Americans rouse - be unanimous, be virtuous, be firm, exert your courage, trust in Heaven, and nobly defy the enemies both of God and man!

Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.

I think the greatest of all human virtues is loyalty. It embraces all the best of the human character: courage, faith, love and charity.

Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.

Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral mercy, truth, and justice!

Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy and goodness. Trust me in all things.

She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.

To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.

Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

As long as you are pure of heart, you speak the truth.

You should not honor men more than truth.