Quotes about Virtue
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
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
- Samuel Johnson
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.
- Samuel Johnson
We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
- Thomas a Kempis
A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.
- Henry Ward Beecher