John Bevere Quotes

Virtue is the truest nobility.

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

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.

Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.

Though I be poor, I'm honest.

Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task.

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.

A man's virtue is best secured by shame, and best improved by emulation in the society of virtuous men.

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

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

We don't honor just to get a reward; we honor because it is the heart of God, and it is our delight.

A good man's life is all of a piece.

Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.

Honour is purchased by the deeds we do.