personal virtue Quotes

Personal virtue is no substitute for political hard-headedness.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

I'm a good guy.

Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principle, it makes saints and martyrs; ill-directed, or uncontrolled, it is a snare, and the source of every temptation; besides, as people cannot get it if it is not given them, to descant on it seems to me as idle as to recommend people to have black eyes or fair complexions.

It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls.

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.

If there's a heaven, I would probably go. I've actually a very nice person.

Every man, in proportion to his virtue, considers himself, with respect to the great community of mankind, as the steward and guardian of their interests in the property which he chances to possess. Every man, in proportion to his wisdom, sees the manner in which it is his duty to employ the resources which the consent of mankind has intrusted to his discretion.

Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.

There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning -- without altogether recognizing it beneath the disguise of ambiguous behavior which it assumes in his presence.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.