Quotes About Character

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

Neither Left nor Right has a monopoly of virtue when it comes to smearing opponents.

Teach your daughters to walk in virtue.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, 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.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

I'm really tired of virtue.

I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something that comes naturally. 'The control of the appetites by right reason,' is how he defined it.

Republican government presupposes decent and admirable qualities among its citizens - so we should be serious about strengthening character and inculcating virtue.

'Character Doesn't Count' has become a de facto G.O.P. motto. 'Virtue Doesn't Matter' might be another. But character does count, and virtue does matter, and Trump's shortcomings prove it daily.

Each one of us has a particular virtue and faults that make the process of becoming like Jesus different.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.