Quotes About Character

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Integrity is a very important and an almost indispensable virtue that all leaders must possess. This is especially true in the Philippine context because we Filipinos really respond to leadership by example.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Money and virtue must always be combined.

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

Virtue is not photogenic, so I liked playing bad guys. But, whenever I played a bad guy, I tried to find something good in him, and that kept my contact with the audience.

Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence.

Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Donald Trump is not some great man of virtue, but this much I'll say for him: I think he loves America, and I don't think he wants to line his own pockets.