Quotes About Virtue

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.

Demaratus, being asked in a troublesome manner by an importunate fellow, Who was the best man in Lacedaemon? answered at last, 'He, Sir, that is the least like you'.

They died,but not as lavish as their blood, Or thinking death itself was simply good; Their wishes neither were to live nor die, But to do both alike commendably.

They should live all together on an equal footing; merit to be their only road to eminence, and the disgrace of evil, and credit of worthy acts, their one measure of difference between man and man.

Even those virtues which nature had denied him were imitated by him so successfully that he won more confidence than those who actually possessed them.

It was glorious to acquire a throne by justice, yet more glorious to prefer justice before a throne; the same virtue which made the one appear worthy of regal power exalted the other to the disregard of it.

It is the fortune of all good men that their virtue rises in glory after their deaths, and that the envy which evil men conceive against them never outlives them long; some have the happiness even to see it die before them; but in Numa's case, also, the fortunes of the succeeding kings served as foils to set off the brightness of his reputation.

we ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.

The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it…eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.

It is the hither accomplishment to use money well than to use arms; but not to need it is more noble than to use it.

Even if your life be bad do not live unknown, but be known, reform, repent; if you have virtue, be not utterly useless in life; if you are vicious, do not continue unreformed.

Friends and kindred should be the good and virtuous [of all mankind], and that the vicious only should be accounted foreigners. Nor ... Greeks and barbarians should be distinguished by long garments, targets, scimitars, or turbans; but that the Grecians should be known by their virtue and courage, and the barbarians by their vices and their cowardice.

As Plato says: 'People cannot be good leaders, unless they have first been good servants.

Whenever two notes are sounded in accord the tune is carried by the bass; and in like manner every activity in a virtuous household is carried on by both parties in agreement, but discloses the husband's leadership and preferences.

When therefore we once begin so to love good men, as not only (according to Plato) to esteem the wise man himself happy, and him who hears his discourses sharer in his felicity, but also to admire and love his habit, gait, look, and very smile, so as to wish ourselves to be that very person, then we may be assured that we have made very good proficiency.

Character is simply habit long continued.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

There is no substitute for patience, in any work we want to practice it more and more, Practice the truth of good and violence will not give place to your heart.

There is no substitute for patience, in any work we want to practice it more and more, Practice the truth of good and violence will not give place to your heart. Poet Md. Hedaetul Islam

The test of true virtue in a man surely resides in his capacity to bear with spirit and with dignity the most complete transformations of fortune

The true source of freedom is found in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. Christians believe it is he who fully discloses the human potential for virtue and goodness, and it is he who liberates us from sin and darkness.

A man can do but little. Enough if that little be right.

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