Quotes about Virtue
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Noble fathers have noble children.
- Euripides
No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
- Aristotle
Saint abroad, and a devil at home.
- John Bunyan
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it, at any rate, brag.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
- Teresa of Avila
The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
- Frederick Douglass
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.
- Marcus Aurelius
You don't have to have special skills to be a hero. You just have to do what's right, despite the cost.
- Susan May Warren