Quotes About Virtue

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.

All men are good when free from passion, interest, or error.

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important.

If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.

If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.

Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness.

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.

There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt.

There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.

Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.

What makes a good man?

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.

The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.