Quotes about Virtue
May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.
— Thomas Monson
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
— George Washington
What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.
— Cicero
It (the heart) is supposed in popular language, to be the seat sometimes, of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty, or baseness.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
— Thomas Jefferson
The best of all lost arts is honesty.
— Mark Twain
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles the character of an "Honest Man."
— George Washington
We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
— Epictetus
Honor is the greatest poet.
— Dante Alighieri
There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.
— Cicero
"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.
— Ezra Taft Benson
He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors.
— Thomas a Kempis