Quotes About Virtue

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends : have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder.

hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy.

Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

but he has never played the demagogue.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

Modesty is not a bad habit, after all,' the priest commented. 'Alhough humility would be better.

Modesty is not a bad habit, after all," the priest said. "Although humility would be better.

Are there any two words in all of the English language more closely twinned than courage and cowardice? I do not think there is a man alive who will not yearn to possess the former and dread to be accused of the latter. One is held to be the apogee of man's character, the other its nadir. An yet, to me the two sit side by side on the circle of life, removed from each other by the merest degree of arc. (MARCH - Chapter 11 - page 168)

My mother was an excellent woman. Pious, virtuous. Kind. But she was not the intellectual equal of my father. Not by any means. I do not speak of book learning. I speak of a certain innate quality of mind, a superior understanding. Because she had it not, their companionship was - diminished. Father looked to his books, rather than to his wife.

Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.

A good man never dies.

Tolerance is a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbours of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

Are you good men and true?

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.