Quotes About Virtue

No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.

It is your virtue, being men, to try; And it is ours, by virtue to deny.

A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

All men are born good.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

There is a difference between being a good man and being good at being a man.

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.

We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.

Charisma gets the attention of man and character gets the attention of God.

No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by the heart.

Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.

Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.