John Knox Quotes

All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.

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

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

I thank God that I left office the same way I came in: with integrity.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

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

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

The just man walks in his integrity

Better deserve honor and not have it, than have it and not deserve it.

The Decalogue and the Golden Rule have no place in a political campaign. The commander who lost the battle through the activity of his moral nature would be the derision and jest of history.

I do not believe with the Rochefoucaults and the Montaignes that fourteen out of fifteen men are rogues. I believe a great abatement from that proportion may be made in favor of general honesty.