Quotes about Virtue
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
- GK Chesterton
Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
- Aristotle
Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.
- Aristotle
The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.
- Aristotle
When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.
- Confucius
Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.
- Confucius
The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.
- Confucius
When good men die their goodness does not perish.
- Euripides
The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.
- George Washington
Truth does not blush.
- Tertullian
By humiliation alone can Saints be made.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
If my little acts of virtue can be mistaken for imperfections, imperfections can just as easily be mistaken for virtue.
- St. Therese of Lisieux