Quotes about Virtue
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how He can be so patient with the pious. —GEORGE MACDONALD
- Leonard Sweet
It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.
- St. Jerome
Ability without honor is useless.
- Cicero
The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile.
- Ezra Taft Benson
The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.
- Martin Luther
Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.
- Albert Einstein
Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!
- Charles Spurgeon
Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.
- David O. McKay
You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.
- Francis Chan
Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.
- Henry Ward Beecher