Quotes about Virtue
'Tis only noble to be good.Kind hearts are more than coronets,And simple faith than Norman blood.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The best of men are just men at best.
- Alistair Begg
According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.
- John Quincy Adams
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
- Anne Frank
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
- Euripides
We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to touch you. Stay away from it. Avoid it.
- Gordon Hinckley
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
- Henry David Thoreau
They talk like angels but they live like men.
- St. Jerome
A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma... It's about integrity
- Richard Paul Evans
My mother always said that if you do the right thing, the universe comes to your aid
- Richard Paul Evans