Quotes about Virtue
He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.
— Francis de Sales
When we safeguard (the heavenly virtue of freedom), when we honor it, when we protect it, we will walk with Washington, we will pray with patriots, and we shall have peace on earth, good will to men.
— Thomas Monson
Peace springs from righteousness in the soul, from upright living.
— David O. McKay
This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.
— St. John Chrysostom
The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
— Aristotle
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If your desire is for good, the people will be good.
— Confucius
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
— Edmund Burke
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
— Oprah Winfrey
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
We become just by performing just actions temperate by performing temperate actions brave by performing brave actions.
— Aristotle