Quotes About Virtue

Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.

A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.

It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.

The good man makes others good.

The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

Rather a man with 50 per cent ability and 100 per cent character than a man with 100 per cent ability and 50 per cent character.

You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

A gallant man is above ill words.

Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men.

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.

According as a man acts and walks in the path of life, so he becomes. He that does good becomes good; he that does evil becomes evil. By pure actions he becomes pure; by evil actions he becomes evil.