Quotes About Virtue

Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

Sincerity is moral truth.

A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.

The truth is that goodness is hardwired in humanity.

Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.

God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.

Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like were supposed to.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.

Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.

The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly. . . .

The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.

Authentic femininity is a combination of class, tenderness and virtue. When a woman possesses these traits, a man will naturally want to be more of a gentleman around her.