Quotes about Virtue
Honesty is the best policy
— Cicero
As for you, my young friends, I urge you to strive for virtue, for without it friendship cannot exist. And friendship, aside from virtue, is the greatest thing we can find in life.
— Cicero
a distinction has gradually sprung up between what is expedient and what is right. But the implication that something can be right without being expedient, or expedient without being right, is the most pernicious error that could possibly be introduced into human life.
— Cicero
they follow nature as the most perfect guide to a good life. Now
— Cicero
The extreme of right is the extreme of wrong.
— Cicero
You think I didn't hate their pity, their forced kindness? And knowing that no matter what I did, how virtuous I was, or hardworking, I would never be beautiful. Not like her, the one who merely had to sit there to be adored. You wonder why I stabbed the blue eyes of my dolls with pins and pulled their hair out until they were bald? Life isn't fair. Why should I be?
— Margaret Atwood
A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
— Cicero
The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms, or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God.
— William Law
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.
— Cicero
Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.
— John Henry Jowett
It is always the right time to do the right thing.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
— Aristotle