Quotes about Virtue
What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.
- Aristotle
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.
- St. Augustine
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.
- Confucius
Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.
- Confucius
When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.
- Confucius
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
- Albert Schweitzer
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.
- CS Lewis
Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.
- Martin Luther
A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].
- James Madison
I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].
- James Madison