Quotes about Virtue
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
— Joseph Addison
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
— Joseph Addison
Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?
— Marcus Aurelius
Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.
— Cicero
Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.
— Cicero
Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.
— Peter Kreeft
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
— Publilius Syrus
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.
— Thomas Jefferson
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
— Thomas Paine
Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.
— Aristotle
While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.
— St. Augustine