Quotes About Virtue

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds.

If all men were just there would be no need of valor.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.

Fairly examined, truly understood, No man is wholly bad, nor wholly good.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.

The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be.

No other virtue makes man more equal to the angels, than the imitation of their way of life.

The honester the man, the worse luck.

To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man.

I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.

The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.

If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.

Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is the virtue that unites men and inspires their noblest efforts.