Quotes About Virtue

Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deed has not ripened; but when his good deed has ripened, then does the good man see happy days.

If you are afraid of the sunlight, you ain't a good man!

A good man can never be the enemy of someone; if he did, he ain't a good man!

No man is a man without high morals and ethics.

Sun shines with its light; flowers shine with their beauties and men shine with their goodnesses.

What makes a man heavy is the gravity of virtue. Without it, man will be so light that he will be drifted in the winds of immorality.

Will you continue doing goodness even if you know that no one will know them? Will you continue doing kindness even if you know that no one will remember them? Then, you are truly a holy man!

No man is so good as to be free from all evil, nor so bad as to be worth nothing.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.

Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.

In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

Honor, thou strong idol of man's mind.

Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.

There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.

Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.

It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.