Quotes about Virtue
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
— Marcus Aurelius
Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, doing as you say you would do.
— Roy Bennett
One kind deed is more beautiful than a thousand good intentions.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.
— James A. Garfield
Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
— Gloria Steinem
They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love.
— St. Basil
There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.
— Confucius
We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.
— Jim Rohn
Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.
— Joseph Wirthlin
There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
— Teresa of Avila
It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
— George Bernard Shaw
Confucius said the doctrine of the mean was the highest virtue, and rare among men. The Buddhists call it the middle way. Aristotle saw moderation as the essence of virtue. I say moderation in all things, even moderation.
— Jay Parini