Quotes About Virtue

There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.

He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men.

Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue.

Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.

The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.

Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor in time of war.

For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas

In times of war, as in life, surround yourself with people of value, virtue and high morals, because it's always better to lose, perish and vanish in glory than to live in shame.

By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.

Vice stirs up war virtue fights.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people

Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?

Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

One who directs to good is rewarded similar to the doer of good.

Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.

Only wisdom and virtue can truly win men's devotion.

Truthfulness is composed of justice and courage.

Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Allah the Exalted loves him who forgoes worldly life, the Angels love him who rejects the vices, and the Muslims love him who gives up greediness in respect of the Muslims.