Quotes About Virtue

Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?

If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.

There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects.

Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine!

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

It is the duty of each one of us to be a holy woman. We shall have elevated aims, if we are holy women.

There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

This hand is free of blood, and this hand is free from the stain of corruption.

I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.

How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.

Bad men cannot make good citizens.

Most important is be a good man.

Every virtuous man is free.

To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.

Men become old, but they never become good.

If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.

Humility makes our lives acceptable to God, meekness makes us acceptable to men.