John Chrysostom Quotes

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride.

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

Underlying all the explanations, intellectual constructions and self-delusions, we can still know a good man when we see one.

To test a man's ego, simply ask him a complicated question. A good person will never be afraid to admit they don't know the answer to something. And only when a man has fully dismantled his ego, can he begin to be truly good.

I choose goodness... I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will boast. I will confess before I will accuse. I choose goodness.

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.

Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.

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

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

A little humility never hurts.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

Honor does not have to be defended.

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

Self-deprecation is not the answer to humility.

I've seen people, when they get into these bigger and bigger jobs, it goes to their heads. I've seen it. Some people in life change who they are, and some don't. I'm basically the same guy I've always been.

I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.

It's important to stay humble.