Quotes about Virtue
While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
— Marcus Aurelius
There is explosive power in virtue.
— Corrie Ten Boom
Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life.
— St. John Chrysostom
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
— John Tillotson
Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to control the appetites, and to smooth the asperities of man; to make us compassionate and kind, and forgiving one to another; to make us good husbands, good fathers, good friends; and to render us active and useful in the discharge of the relative social and civil duties?
— William Wilberforce
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.
— William Wilberforce
Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.
— William Wilberforce
The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
— William Wordsworth
That best portion of a good man's life,His little, nameless, unremembered actsOf kindness and of love.
— William Wordsworth
There is no real excellence in all this world that can be separated from the right living.
— David Starr Jordan
Never underestimate yourself when you do what is right. Never overestimate yourself when you do what is wrong.
— Roy Bennett