Quotes about Virtue
History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.
— Ludwig Borne
There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.
— Samuel Johnson
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
— Charles Dickens
The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.
— Thomas Jefferson
Character is what a man is in the dark.
— DL Moody
Only the brave know how to forgive it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
— Laurence Sterne
Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
— Aristotle
Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace - Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in Jesus you find everything.
— J. Oswald Sanders
He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.
— Alphonsus Liguori
Patience is God's nature.
— Tertullian
Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.
— Charles Spurgeon