Attention Quote by John Steinbeck

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering…

— Geoff Mulgan

“Virtue is a subordination of the passions to the intellect. It is to act in accordance with your highest convictions. It does not consist…

— Robert Ingersoll

Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience to authority,…

— E. O. Wilson

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd…

— William Ellery Channing

Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful.

— I. A. R. Wylie

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

— Robert Hughes

There is no greater virtue than honesty.

— Martin Sheen

Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is…

— Charles Caleb Colton