Quotes About Virtue

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.

Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

True courage is born only when it is accompanied by justice.

Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence.

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

Integrity is the core of our character.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

Courage is like—it's a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

Without courage, all other virtues are useless.

Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character.

Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.

There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.