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Quotes About Virtue

A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.
~ Jesse Ventura
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
~ George Bernard Shaw
No polity can be devised which shall perpetuate freedom among a people that are dead to honor and integrity. Liberty and virtue are twin sisters, and the best fabric in the world . . . .
~ James Henley Thornwell
A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.
~ Voltaire
We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
~ Epictetus
Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.
~ Ayn Rand
...sometimes compassion is the greater part of honor.
~ Rachel Vincent, Shift
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
~ Seneca the Younger
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.
~ Laozi
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
~ Wendell Willkie
Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.
~ Aristotle
As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.
~ Hosea Ballou
Let danger never turn you aside from the pursuit of honor or the service to your country ... Know that death is inevitable and the fame of virtue is immortal
~ Robert E. Lee
The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.
~ George Washington
There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
~ Seneca the Younger
The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.
~ Xunzi
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
~ Lionel Trilling
To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
Because he (the Sage) demands no honor, he will never be dishonored.
~ Laozi
A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Honor is decency without vanity.
~ Arthur Koestler