Quotes About Virtue

That which is inherent in man is his virtue.

It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.

All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.

As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.

A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.

In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?

A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.

Few men are wantonly wicked.

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about. If it is good to say or do something, then it is even better to be criticized for having said or done it.

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man.

That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man.

The wise man never loses his temper.

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

But what virtue I do have is in me and of me. Men deny the good that comes from themselves, calling it God. So do they with their won evil, calling it the Devil.

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.

It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

What's virtue in a man can't be virtue in a cat.

Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.