John Milton Quotes

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of wrongdoing.

To me, integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences. It means being righteous from the very depth of our soul, not only in our actions but, more importantly, in our thoughts and in our hearts.

Do not feel lonely on the road of righteousness Because of the fewness of the walkers on it.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.

The greatest man is he who chooses the Right with invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptations from within and without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in storms and most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.