Quotes about Virtue
And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The reward of the good man is to be allowed to worship in truth.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If a man in truth wills the Good then he must be willing to suffer all for the Good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.
- AW Tozer
This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.
- George H. W. Bush
None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.
- Thomas Watson, Jr.
Integrity gains strength by use.
- John Tillotson
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
- Marcus Aurelius
If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.
- Theodore Roosevelt
No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.
- Confucius
In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength.
- Jim Rohn