Quotes about Virtue

Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character.

Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.

Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love.7-22 REINHOLD NIEBUHR