Quotes about Virtue
Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.
— St. Augustine
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.
— St. Augustine
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.
— Albert Schweitzer
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.
— Confucius
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
— St. Jerome
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
— David O. McKay
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
— Martin Luther
Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
— Edmund Burke
To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.
— Aristotle
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.
— George Washington
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.
— Dinesh D'Souza