John Fletcher Quotes

Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

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

Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort.

There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.

Noble be man, helpful and good!

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.

The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.

Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not only does right, but loves to do right.

The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds.

We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.

He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason.

Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.

The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.