Quotes about Virtue
The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.
- John Adams
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
- Joseph Addison
If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.
- Laurence Sterne
The superior man limits his achievements.
- Confucius
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
- George Bernard Shaw
The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.
- Aristotle
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