Quotes about Virtue
What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?
- Confucius
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.
- William Wilberforce
Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
- Confucius
It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
- Publilius Syrus
Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.
- Cicero
Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character.
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.
- Ludwig Borne
There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.
- Samuel Johnson
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
- Charles Dickens
The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.
- Thomas Jefferson