Quotes about Virtue
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If your desire is for good, the people will be good.
- Confucius
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
- Edmund Burke
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
- Oprah Winfrey
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
We become just by performing just actions temperate by performing temperate actions brave by performing brave actions.
- Aristotle
A good heart will help you to a bonny face my lad ... and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
- Emily Bronte
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.
- Anne Frank
True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought.
- AW Pink
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.
- William Hazlitt
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
- William Hazlitt