Quotes about virtue
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
Benjamin Franklin
Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain (what I consider the most enviable of all titles) the character of an "Honest Man."
George Washington
Let us endeavour so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
Aristotle
As diamonds cut diamonds, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character too.
Cyrus Bartol
Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend,
Sir Winston Churchill
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