Quotes about Virtue
We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
— St. John Chrysostom
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
— Thomas Henry Huxley
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
— Maya Angelou
No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
— Ambrose of Milan
One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
— Epictetus
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
— St. Jerome
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
— Marcus Aurelius
Anger cannot be dishonest.
— Marcus Aurelius
Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.
— Marcus Aurelius
Whether you are shivering with cold or too hot, sleepy or wide awake, spoken well of or badly, dying, or doing anything else, do not let it interfere with doing what is right. For whatever causes us to die is also one of life's processes. Even for this, nothing is required of us than to accomplish well the task at hand.
— Marcus Aurelius
Within ten days you will seem a god to those to whom you are now a beast and an ape, if you will return to your principles and the worship of reason.
— Marcus Aurelius