Quotes About Virtue

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

Noble be man, helpful and good!

The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.

For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl. [Ger., Denn ein wackerer Mann verdient ein begutertes Madchen.]

If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?

Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.

When guests enter the room their entertainers rise to receive them; and in all meetings men should ascend into their higher selves, imparting to one another only the best they know and love.

If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love.

Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.

Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more unnatural than most of the virtues.

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms.

Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.

Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.

Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity. Remember it's the you inside that counts.

Keep not money, but keep good people's company.

Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.

One can buy anything with money except morality.

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.

Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?