I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
William Shakespeare

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
William Shakespeare

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
William Shakespeare

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Aristotle

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
Aristotle

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Aristotle

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Aristotle

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Lao Tzu

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
Lao Tzu

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Mae West

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
John Adams

Who sows virtue reaps honor.
Leonardo da Vinci

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
Plato