Quotes about Virtue

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as a mysterious law of existence. In obedience to it we have to fulfill our destiny.

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.

The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.

The free society does not guarantee virtue any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a pursuit rendered all the more meaningful and profound because success is not guaranteed: it has to be won through personal striving.