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Quotes About Virtue

The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.
~ Terry Pratchett
Do the right thing because it is right.
~ Immanuel Kant
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
~ George Bernard Shaw
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
~ Alan K. Simpson
Beautiful faces are those that wear — It matters little if dark or fair — Whole-souled honesty printed there.
~ Ellen Palmer Allerton
Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.
~ Mark Twain
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
~ Immanuel Kant
Honesty is better than any policy.
~ Immanuel Kant
Honesty is the best policy.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.
~ Barnabe Rich
Be sure to live up to your reputation for honesty and goodness, because many souls who believe you to be honest and good have placed themselves in your hands.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?
~ C. S. Lewis
Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
~ Tiger Woods
Integrity has no need of rules.
~ Albert Camus
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
~ Sallust
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
~ Alexander Pope
Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon.
~ Jamie Oliver
For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.
~ Criss Jami
Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.
~ Thomas S. Monson
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
~ Plutarch
Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.
~ Jackie Mason
It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.
~ Socrates