Noble Qualities Quotes

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

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.

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.

Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

Character: the grandest thing in the world.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues.

Virtue only is the true beauty.

There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.

Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.

A good character is the best tombstone.

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Virtuous men alone possess friends.

Virtue is the first title of nobility.

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.