Quotes About Character

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

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

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

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

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

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

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

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

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.

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

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.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

To equate IQ with human virtue or wisdom or character or a whole variety of other of the most important measures of a value of a person is ridiculous.

Kindness is more than a virtue. It is a source of strength.

A hero usually rises above the ordinary because he or she exemplifies some virtue that everyone can recognize.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.