Quotes about Virtue
The upright are richer in deeds than the wealthy are in gold.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Liars corrupt knowledge, and fools pervert wisdom, but the wise hallow both.Knowledge holds the truth.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Learning is intelligence.Knowing is understanding.Practicing is wisdom.Teaching is virtue.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Truth is the highest knowledge.Faith is the highest courage.Reason is the highest wisdom.Love is the highest virtue.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.
- David Starr Jordan
If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine!
- Joseph Addison
One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Humility makes our lives acceptable to God, meekness makes us acceptable to men.
- Francis de Sales
All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.
- Thomas a Kempis
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
- Aristotle
Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be.
- James Freeman Clarke