Quotes about Virtue
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
Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.
- Euripides
A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.
- George Bernard Shaw
Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.
- GK Chesterton
Few men are wantonly wicked.
- Mahatma Gandhi
It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.
- Martin Luther
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
- Martin Luther