Quotes About Virtue

Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?

Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished before thy death?

Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.

Do not attempt to benefit by rebukes one who boasts of his virtues, for he loves to display himself can not be a lover of truth.

But thou, my son, study to make prevail One colour in thy life, the hue of truth.

In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.

No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to seek to translate itself into a new faith.

Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

By making choices consistent with eternal truth you will develop righteous character.

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light.

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed by its own mother.

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.

Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.