Quotes About Virtue

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.

Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.

Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of grass.

The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

The woman had a humble, cringing manner. Of course, she had discovered that, having neither money nor virtue, she had better be humble if she knew what was good for her.

Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.

One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.

A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.

Holiness exalts people and keeps them on high

It is important to remember that good overcomes evil

Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it.

Not greedy of filthy lucre.

The surest step toward joy in the morning is virtue in the evening.

The key to living a moral life is this: Do nothing in private that you would be ashamed to discuss openly with your mother.

Frugality is the mother of all virtues.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.