Quotes about Virtue
No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.
- Herbert Hoover
Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man.
- Herman Melville
So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.
- JC Ryle
If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?
- John Adams
Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.
- John Milton
Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.
- John Milton
None but such as are good men can give good things, and that which is not good, is not delicious to a well-govern'd and wise appetite.
- John Milton
If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.
- James Allen
Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.
- Abraham Lincoln
If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.
- Epictetus
Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Frugality includes all the other virtues.
- Cicero