Quotes about Virtue
One never does wrong by doing right.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Make the right decision even when nobody's looking and you will always turn out okay
- Oprah Winfrey
Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobody is going to know whether you did it or not.
- Oprah Winfrey
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious
- Oscar Wilde
I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.
- Oscar Wilde
The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.
- Confucius
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
- Confucius
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
- Confucius
Virtue is never left to stand alone. He who has it will have neighbors.
- Confucius
Return good for good; return evil with justice.
- Confucius
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established
- Confucius
Let a ruler base his government upon virtuous principles, and he will be like the pole-star, which remains steadfast in its place, while all the host of stars turn towards it
- Confucius