Edmund Burke Quotes

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people

Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.

Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

Honor is decency without vanity.

But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.