Quotes about Virtue
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
- Cicero
It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.
- Cicero
Friendship is a union of spirits a marriage of hearts and the bond there of virtue.
- Samuel Johnson
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
- George Washington
Keep good men company and you shall be of their number.
- Anonymous
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
- Samuel Johnson
God warriors do not linger in temptation. They never test their strength against lust-they run!
- Mario Murillo
Man skills may win you man points, but manhood virtues win the heart of God. Virtue is much harder to develop than skill, and it takes much longer. But the payoff is far greater!
- Mark Batterson
Goodness is not the absence of badness. You can do nothing wrong and still do nothing right.
- Mark Batterson
Be good and you will be lonely.
- Mark Twain
To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.
- Mark Twain
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
- Andrew Carnegie