Quotes about Virtue
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions
— Aristotle
I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.
— Cicero
Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
— Herman Melville
The Master said, "The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit." (Analects 4.16)
— Confucius
A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.
— Euripides
Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.
— CS Lewis
I enjoyed my breakfast this morning, and I think that was a good thing and do not think it was condemned by God. But I do not think myself a good man for enjoying it.
— CS Lewis
A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.
— Confucius
The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.
— DL Moody
The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.
— Edmund Burke