John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes

I thank God that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

It is better to be honourable than be honoured.

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

Faith idles when character shrivels.

Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.

Your peers will respect you for your integrity and character, not your possessions.

Act with honor, and Honor will aid you

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.

I suspect that with men like General Petraeus, where honor means something - losing your life is secondary to losing your honor.

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.

If you live what you believe, you will always have the respect of others.

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

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

What is left when honor is lost?

My father and mother had tremendous integrity, and obviously that affected me.

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

There never was one particle of... jealousy... in the heart of Hyrum Smith.

When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.

I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.

I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.