Quotes About Integrity

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

Virtue is harmony.

Uncommon valor was a common virtue.

I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.