Quotes About Virtue

Man should make himself a lot of good karma.

Who is the honest man? He that doth still and strongly good pursue To God, his neighbor, and himself most true: Whom neither force nor fawning can Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due.

The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution.

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing.

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

So upright Quakers please both man and God.

No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.

Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.

Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.

It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life.

Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the laws of your own nature, without expecting to be paid for it?

Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.

The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind; but the odor of good people travels; even against the wind: a good man pervades every place.

God exalts the man who humbles himself.

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil.