Quotes about Virtue
The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.
— Edmund Burke
Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.
— Euripides
A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.
— George Bernard Shaw
Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.
— GK Chesterton
Few men are wantonly wicked.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.
— Martin Luther
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
— Martin Luther
Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.
— Pierre Corneille
A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.
— Publilius Syrus
There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.
— Publilius Syrus
It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson