Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends—honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism—these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout history. Barack Obama

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Auspicious queen, thine heav'nly pinions spread, / And lead celestial Chastity along' Lo! / Now her sacred retinue descends, / Array'd in glory from the orbs above. / Attend me, Virtue, thro' my youthful years! / But guide my steps to endless life and bliss. Phillis Wheatley

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Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. John Adams

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Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. George Washington

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Every virtuous example has powerful impressions in early youth. Many years of vice and vicious examples do not erase from the mind seeds sown in early life. They take a deep root, and tho often crop'd will spring again. Abigail Adams

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It is not safe to trust to the virtue of any people. Alexander Hamilton

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Encourage all your virtuous dispositions, and exercise them whenever an opportunity arises; being assured that they will gain strength by exercise, as a limb of the body does, and that exercise will make them habitual. From the practice of the purest virtue, you may be assured you will derive the most sublime comforts in every moment of life, and in the moment of death. Thomas Jefferson

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Virtue is the truest nobility. Miguel de Cervantes

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Virtue is the performance of pleasant actions. James Stephens

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Virtue was sufficient of herself for happiness. Diogenes Laertius

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Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference. Voltaire

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Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs. Claude Helvetius

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Virtue and riches seldom settle on one man. Niccolo Machiavelli

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Virtue is certainly the most noble and secure possession a man can have. Richard Savage

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Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold. Ludwig van Beethoven

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And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. John Dryden

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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. Aristotle

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. Lord Macaulay

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There are virtues which become crimes by exaggeration. Alexandre Dumas the Elder

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We should cease to grow the moment we cease to discriminate between virtue and vice. Mahatma Gandhi

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To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil feelings and intentions. William Penn

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I always admired virtue—but I could never imitate it. Charles II

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No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic. Sir John Seeley

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Who follows not virtue in youth cannot fly sin in old age. Italian Proverb

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Always, in times of stress, it is the simple virtues that really count. John Winant

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The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize. Richard Milnes

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Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world. Euripides

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Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule may stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool. Horace

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In all circumstances, try to cultivate virtue. Buddha

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