Virtue Quotes

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

Principles only mean something when you stick to them when its inconvenient.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Character is what you are in the dark.

Character is what you are in the dark.

No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe, as from our own. Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.

There is no joy in life like the joy of sharing.

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.